Tim, I find that yours is an extraordinarily unfair treatment of the various options.

In your views:

- Option 2 should get cross subsidy from Willow Way and any other development (why not an increase in Council tax to pay for it then?);

Option 1 instead should not benefit by any cross subsidy but only rely on flats built above it. Why this? Because it makes your preferred option sound better than what it is?

And the bottom line? That you guys will oppose a realistic option because you don't like it.
You are denying the obvious.
Option 2 is more expensive, it must pay for conservation and for bridging the new and the old and compared to a site that's a clean slate it puts constraints to what can be done.
Of course it would have been better with an even bigger clear site but that train's now left for real.