My wife and I together with several other concerned residents were the instigators of the protest march between the Town Centre and the Pavilion to present a petition and letters of objection to Coun Brian Ellis on November 4 last year.

I would therefore like to recap on the amount of local opposition there has been regarding the proposed Pavilion Complex Redevelopment Plan so far: 1,000 people took part in the march.

3,000 signed a petition against the downgrading of the Ocean Room.

1,500 letters objecting to the scheme were collected in just 3 days in the town centre.

75-80% of the public who visited the consultation exhibition at the Arts Centre had grave reservations about the proposals.

250 people were unable to attend the scheduled committee meeting at the Guildhall.

500 people attended the reconvened meeting at the Pavilion Theatre last Thursday.

12 out of the 13 members of the public who spoke at this meeting were all against the scheme and were loudly applauded in the tightly packed theatre.

Only a handful of the many letters written to the Dorset Echo have been in support of the master plan.

I wonder how many of our councillors received 75 per cent of the votes from residents within their respective wards, when they were elected. None I suspect - but they were still elected!

When is a majority not a majority? Answer: It depends how it suits this council.

During last Thursday's meeting one councillor allegedly inferred that all of the people who registered their objections represent a very small percentage of the total population of Weymouth and Portland.

So the councillors are assuming therefore that the other 59,500 of local residents, who did not turn up at the Pavilion meeting last Thursday, are all in favour of the scheme!

I am now appealing to every resident in the Borough who disagrees with the present proposals and would prefer to see something more appropriate for this prominent site, to attend the full council meeting on Thursday February 8 at 7pm at the Pavilion Theatre.

This could be our last chance to stop our councillors endorsing this ridiculous plan.

What we now need is thousands of people to descend on the Pavilion and see if our dear councillors will dare to continue to push this recommended plan forward.

Don't leave it to others - get up and get down to the Pavilion to make the voice of the people of Weymouth and Portland heard once and for all.

Our councillors have allowed the local authority to run roughshod over the views of their constituents. It is now up to us - POWER TO THE PEOPLE!

J & P Barrow Weymouth