The future of Saundersfoot's dilapidated Barbecue building took a new twist this week. Saundersfoot Community Council have been granted a 12-month option to lease the former coal mining office in Cambrian Place for community use. Providing a viable business plan is produced before the expiration of this period, the community council will be granted a 99-year full repairing and insuring lease at a peppercorn rent and make available the ground floor free of charge for the Tourist Information Centre. The use of the premises will be limited to community use and sub-letting or assignments will be barred. The lease will contain five-year break clauses subject to dilapidations claims in the event that the community council wish to surrender at any time. Solicitors representing the community council are now considering the lease and will be making a report to councillors. Members will then meet to see if it is a viable proposition. "With regard to the non-letting clause which came before the cabinet on Monday, I have submitted documents for it to be called in," said Clr. Mrs. Rosemary Hayes. "We will now wait to see what happens." If the community council rejects the county's proposals, the local authority may then revert to their original plan to sell it on the open market. • In July 2004, cabinet resolved to dispose of the commercial let part of the premises to the tenant and that the proceeds of the sale be used to partly fund the construction of a new TIC and that the building be declared surplus and disposed of on the open market. The sale of the newsagents has been completed, but Saundersfoot Community Council requested that they be allowed to lease the premises for community use as they hope to create a heritage centre above the current information centre.