Resigned Directorships and Company Secretary

• Linkacre Ltd - pretax profit £31,000 (resigned as Director)
• Orion (London) Ltd - made a loss of £22,000 (resigned as Secretary)
• Calypso Ltd - made a loss of £3,000 (resigned as Director)

NOTE: Orion Sport and Leisure Management Ltd was incorporated 14 January 1999 and subsequently changed name to Calypso Ltd. Accounts made up to 31 January 2001 show liabilities of £8,882 and it has only ever issued one £1 share to Mr R Olsen. Calypso Ltd have been involved in a project with Droitwich Town Council click on this link for a full report.

In summary Calypso's plan for a health spa and later a heritage centre would require that this heritage be destroyed. There were serious concerns that the developments would impinge upon the remainder of the park. It is believed that the first phase of building will creep into the present parkland in order to satisfy the demand for an outdoor pool of sufficent size and that they will extend into commercial outlets. - SOUNDS FAMILIAR?

FOREST HEATH DISTRICT COUNCIL

The 5VPT requested papers under the Freedom of Information Act which were given to us incomplete. These reveal shocking details discussed behind closed doors. (please see Press Release). PRESS RELEASE 23 FEB 2005

LATEST SPIN STORY: The Rowing Strip was originally going to be 1700 metres long; it was then reduced to 1500 metres long and to be used for training. A quote in Cambridge Evening News of 8 April 2005 Sir Steve's manager says "It will be a leisure lake and he will definitely not train on it - that is just utterly ridiculous. There will be swimming at one end and a sailing area."

WHAT THE SPIN REALLY MEANS FOR LOCAL PEOPLE AND THE AREA
ORION SUGGESTS	5VPT CORRECTS	RESULT
Watermark will be one of Europe's most advanced sustainable communities	According to the government's sustainable communities plan, new plans should be: Built on brownfield sites (Protecting the countryside. The Plan outlines how land will be used more effectively. the majority of new housing will be on previously developed land, rather than on Greenfield). Meet housing need (ensuring that housing numbers set out in planning guidance for the South East are delivered. This is already set out for the area in Forest Heath) The homes will not be for local people but targeted to people working at Stanstead Airport as it enlarges and also Cambridge overspill	The Orion plan has nothing to do with sustainable communities.
A soft edged lake will provide new habitats for wildlife	This area currently has the protected Stone Curlew nesting on this and adjacent land. They would not survive the development - these creatures need peace and quiet and will be frightened not only with the development but with the thousands of people wandering around the nature trails. This area is currently home to several types of deer, including Roe, Red Deer and Reeves Muntjack, the Muntjack requires an abundance of thick cover. Roe require pockets of deciduous woodland on land that is not intensely farmed - or built on! Suffolk has a population of Red Deer that are seen at certain times in the Herringswell woods and Kentford heaths when the differnet groups are formed for breeding. The population density of Red Deer, as with all other species, varies greatly with the type of terrain and food availabilityl. The development will destory both.	Loss of a protected nesting site. We would loose these deer to the area.
Provide a range of water sports activities	There are already 8 other rowing clubs and lakes either built or under construction in the region. These are all in areas where there is water and also near established rowing communities, e.g. Cambridge. Rowing is always expensive due to the nature of equipment needed. Local polls have shown very little or no interest in rowing.	This lake is a straight ugly strip. It would become unused eyesore like so many sporting 'fads' built in the wrong areas without a community to sustain it.
It seeks to echo and enhance the existing Breckland character	The building plans are for 4/5 storey town house style dwellings. There is nothing like this in any area of Suffolk. Local houses are mostly low cottages, built from flint faced walls or traditional clunch built.	This development would blot the landscape with a new and unsightly development totally out of character with existing houses.
Will create local jobs	Our expert advice has suggested the business park and on site sports employment will offer jobs up to 10% of the population at most. This would lead to 9,500 people working elsewhere, using the A14 to commute to the Stansted extension, Cambridge or London. Also using the local roads to Mildenhall, Newmarket or Bury St Edmunds.	This will do little to create local work. Residents will either be forced to find work elsewhere or will come from elswhere to live here, resulting in traffic chaos.
This will provide activities for young people in the area	We know that young people in an area need local, affordable activities to be used. This proposed development will provide none of these.	Young people in the surrounding area will be further blighted as their needs will be ignored by a Council thinking that this development is the answer. Problems with youth crime and unrest will continue to rise.
The rowing strip can be topped up with no impact on existing water levels. Orion are saying that it will be filled from the collection of rainwater from the housing.	This region has the least rainfall in England and there is a prediction of drought conditions for the future. There is already a water shortage in this region. To fill this concrete lined rowing strip will take 60 million gallons. Our experts advise that to keep it topped up will take at least 13 million gallons annually. This is equivalent to some local farmers extraction licences! There is no further water available without local farmers giving up their quotas. The Environment Agency have predicted a serious water deficit by 2017. This area is marked as one with no extra water available.	To fill this strip and keep it filled, will require water to be extracted from an already depleted water- table. this development will significantly LOWER the water table
Not all the 600 acres will be developed.	20% or 120 acres of the site will be covered in concrete and tarmac for roads and paths. A further 40% will be taken for houses and buildings.	There will be some green spaces re-created but the current greenfields will be destroyed. Local woods will also be affected.
4,500 homes will be built on the site.	These homes will be built not because they are needed in the area, but to fund a rowing strip that is not needed. There are already large scale developments in Newmarket and Red Lodge that meet our area requirements	This development will need to attract people to live here from elsewhere. This is against all policies.
Expert advice states an extra 20,000 vehicle movements a day will need to be accommodated on local roads.
Only neighbourhood shops will be built	Without local shops people will be forced to travel. The extra 20,000 vehicle movements a day will need to be accommodated on local roads and car parks in Newmarket, Bury and Mildenhall.	Local car parks are at breaking point, they will go into overload. Already busy roads will reach grid lock.
We will fully consult with local people	Forest Heath District Council have been urging Orion to hold public consultations on the proposals for a considerable time. They promised this would happen soon in January 2004; they did not book a hall for a local consultation until February 2005. This was then cancelled with a promise it would happen some time in the future. They feel they have a greater chance of the development getting approval if they can get their plans included in the Regional Spacial Stragegy before they have to face public opposition.	They have to have a consultation BUT they will only hear the answers they want!. The do not want to hear that this is not needed, not wanted and not sustainable
It is not allocated as a greenfield site and has industrial land use around the proposed location. On the land there has been aggregate extractions, landfill and intensive pig farming	It is not intensive pig farming it is extensive pig farming. Outdoor pigs are extensive, almost by definition. As far as gravel extraction goes, there used to be pits which were restored many years ago to arable pasture. This covered only 12.83 acres of the 600 acre site (i.e. 2%)	The site remains a greenfield site until an Authority actively allocates it as something else. it is obviously agricultural land and therefore "greenfield. The Government's town planning policies, especially those relating to new housing development, focus on reusing land that has been "previously developed". They are trying to rename a farm in an ESA (environmentally sensitive area) adjacent to an SSSI with woods, footpath and ponds, how much greener is there!