D-Day veteran Peter Kent, 98, told the Daily Mail: It's wrong, they ought to leave it be. This is a special place, it should be protected from development like this.
Speaking against the plans at planning committee, Vern Stokes OBE, a garrison sergeant major in the army, said: The armed forces community and the club do not deserve to exist in the shadows. Its members merit a home from home.
the applicants said at the time it had sought to address the the club's concerns about light by moving the tallest part of the planned tower further away. It said that the majority of the club's veterans would be relatively unaffected by the proposal.
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