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Today, we give Conservative town councillor Gary Allman space to reply to the Vale Council's comments on the Kymin.

Just what does the Labour run Vale of Glamorgan Council - supported by "Vale Independents" Cllr Kathryn McCaffer and Cllr Ben Gray - take the people of Penarth for?

Cllr McCaffer has the temerity to rap the public of Penarth across the knuckles for apparently being too stupid to understand what the council means when - with reference to the Kymin - it uses big words like "disposal".

I can assure her of this. The voters of Penarth know very well that the word "disposal" actually means what the Oxford Dictionary says it means – i.e "get rid of". And that's exactly what she and her "Vale Independent" colleagues on the council want to do in the case of "The Kymin".

If she considers the Vale Council's "terminology" is too opaque, then the onus is on her and her fellow councillors to make sure that, in future, the council uses clear transparent language that everyone can understand.

The other option is for the council to publish a lexicon of its arcane terminology to accompany the reports written by its officers – with maybe explanatory footnotes from Cllr McCaffer.

Before Cllrs McCaffer and Gray start scolding the rest of us for not understanding council reports properly, perhaps they too should do some reading. Even the minutes of Penarth Town Council would be a good start.

They would then understand that Penarth Town Council did NOT have a "lease" on the Kymin. Penarth Council had only a 12-month rolling licence on the property and couldn't justify borrowing the money to carry out the necessary repairs and improvements on such a flimsy basis.

Penarth Town Council recognised that significant maintenance and repair works were required on The Kymin, (including essential Health and Safety works ), and wanted to take out a Public Works loan to pay for these.

The Vale Council agreed only a 12-month rolling licence - meaning that it could take the Kymin back from Penarth at any time it chose. Penarth Town Council could not possibly justify borrowing large amounts of money and expending public funds on that basis.

Penarth Town Council had asked the Vale Council for a 25-year lease and submitted a business plan. The Vale rejected this on the basis that it lacked detail, and made it clear that they would not grant a 25-year lease to PTC. There was clearly no point in us providing more detail and the decision was therefore made – in the interest of local residents - to return the building to the Vale.

Remember, the 12-month licence meant that at any point the Vale could say, 'thanks very much, we'll take it back now', which is exactly what they've done.