Unfortunately I have been diagnosed with a serious illness and had no option other than to resign. The council had been running for a long time on a minimal number of councillors even though attempts had been made to co-opt new members. With my resignation and another councillor being unable to attend this left insufficient councillors to be quorate and so the meeting had to be cancelled leading to the current situation. Some residents had shown interest in becoming councillors but due to a long running dispute the council was involved in nobody, understandably, wished to grasp the poison chalice.