CAMPAIGNERS desperately trying to save the South Cerney Outdoor Education Centre have expressed their relief this week after the county council promised the land would not be sold off to a property developer.

The centre, based at Lake 12 in the Cotswold Water Park, looks set to close by the end of the summer as part of county council plans to save £108million from its budget over the next four years. But fears the site will be sold to exclusive property developers Watermark have been extinguished by GCC which has promised to work with groups willing to take over the centre.

The decision to close the centre is expected to be ratified at a full council meeting tomorrow after cabinet members recently approved plans to shut it in the summer, with the loss of 25 jobs.

For more on this story see the Standard on Thursday.