PENARTH’S NEW TEAM OF VALE OF GLAMORGAN COUNCILLORS CORNERSWELL WARD Rhiannon Birch (Labour ) Peter King (Labour) PLYMOUTH WARD Ben Gray (Conservative) Kathryn McCaffer (Conservative) STANWELL WARD Lis Burnett (Labour ) Mark Wilson (Labour) . ST AUGUSTINE’S WARD Ruba Sivagnanam (Labour) Neil Thomas (Labour) The Vale of Glamorgan is no longer Labour controlled and therefore Lis Burnett is no longer the Deputy Leader of the Council. As a resident of St Augustine’s Ward I have today written the following to my two new councillors:- Dear Ruba & Neil First of all many congratulations on your election to the Vale of Glamorgan Council. As my local councillors I was wondering if it would be possible to meet in the near future to discuss the closure of the Pavilion cinema You may be aware that I am the person that set up the online petition to keep the cinema open which has so far received more than 1700 signatures and include a large number of extremely useful and insightful comments for the future https://www.change.org/p/tony-hazell-keep-penarth-pier-pavilion-cinema-open?recruiter=66975390&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=copylink There is no doubt that our state of the art unique community cinema has been lost to the people of Penarth due to total mismanagement on the part of PACL and not in any way due to lack of support. We have been fed a cocktail of lies and deceit over the reasons for the closure and the wall of silence from previously elected local councillors is both astonishing and undemocratic. I understand from a number of reliable sources that the reason why Penarth has lost its cinema is due to failure on the part of PACL to pay the Independent Cinema Office for film distribution charges and failure to adhere to the licensing requirements. This is totally unacceptable. Myself and others do not believe that PACL intend to reopen the cinema and even if they did have no faith in them to manage it effectively. Therefore I would be grateful for the opportunity to meet with you both and any of your other Penarth elected councillors to get some clarity over the matter and to ascertain what you will be able to proactively do in order to get this valuable publicly funded community asset back open as a matter of urgency I look forward to hearing from you Yours Sincerely Andrew Jones