SOME of the 70 residents attending Bovey Tracey Amenities Society meeting in the Methodist Church Hall on Tuesday were convinced the town council had a hidden agenda regarding its land off Le Molay Littry Way.

For months residents have feared a supermarket would be built on the site after learning that town councillors had held behind closed doors talks with an agent representing Sainsbury's.

At a second meeting arranged by the society to give townsfolk an opportunity to express their views, some believed the land and the council's recent purchase of the shell of the fire-ravaged Old Thatched Inn were linked.

The council, which plans to have offices there and to relocate the information centre and toilets from the nearby car park, paid £95,000 for the property and is facing an estimated £500,000 re-build, money it is borrowing to repay over 15 years.

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