Dear Supporters We want to bring you up to date on what’s been happening. Graham Perkins, on your behalf and with the advice of the Steering Group, has been in discussions with Bill Preece, chairman of the Board of Directors of St David’s Peninsula Community Land Trust (CLT). We are pleased to be able to say that the CLT Board has agreed to take the CLT’s name off the current joint planning application for Premier Inn and housing on Glasfryn Road. They also acknowledge that this planning application doesn’t have community support. Twenty-four members of the CLT, who are also NoPI supporters, signed an open letter on 19th June calling for a Special General Meeting of the CLT and wanted three points on the meeting’s agenda. These agenda items were that the Board was to do as follows: (1) To withdraw immediately from the joint planning application with Premier Inn. This, as we say above, the Board has agreed to do. (2) To put into place measures that the CLT will in future adhere to its constitution, its obligations as a registered community benefit society, and follow the guidelines and aims as set out in the National Community Land Trust Network handbook. We understand that one of the directors has resigned from the Board, in accordance with advice received from the national CLT organisation. (3) Not to enter into any further negotiations or contracts until the members of the Board were ratified at an AGM. The Board have told us that they will call an AGM in September. The Special General Meeting we wanted could only have considered these agenda points and, as they have been answered by the CLT Board, we no longer see any reason to have this special meeting. As you know, our main aim is to stop a Premier Inn, or any big national chain hotel, being built in St David’s. It would undermine small local businesses and irreparably damage the distinctive character of this special and historic city and its landscape. We have no dispute with the CLT apart from the three points above, and we are sure that most of you, like us, share the CLT’s aims of achieving affordable housing and other benefits for the community. We want to reassure you that the CLT’s withdrawal from the current planning application doesn’t mean that affordable housing cannot, or will not, be built on the land. Pembrokeshire Housing Association is still an applicant with Premier Inn, and the National Park Authority would not consider an application from Premier Inn to build only a hotel, as the National Park has allocated the land for housing. We will now concentrate on stopping Premier Inn from being built, with your help and by all means open to us in the planning process. We intend to get professional advice and raise funds for this. We invite you, and any other supporters, to a meeting on Monday 31st July 2017, at 7p.m. in St David’s Rugby Club. There will be a short presentation of facts, as we understand them, and an opportunity for us all to consider our tactics going forward. We may well know more about Premier Inn’s and Pembrokeshire Housing Association’s actual planning application, if the pre-application period of public consultation has started by then.