NEW proposals for the location of West Somerset District Council's centralised offices will be discussed in public for the first time next Monday at a special meeting of the authority's cabinet. In anticipation of a high level of public interest, the meeting will be held in the West Somerset Community College, in Minehead, at 5pm. The cabinet will be asked to "consider any recommendations arising from a council seminar" on the topic which was held in private on Wednesday of this week. The meeting will then be followed by a full council meeting at 6.30pm to approve formally the next steps to be taken by the authority. Council leader Cllr Steven Pugsley stressed both meetings would only be a forum to discuss ideas and finalise details of the consultation process. He said: "We will be considering such issues as re- siting the council offices, the potential retail development in Minehead and other issues such as this. "However, I am not anticipating any decisions being made. It will purely be an opportunity to say these are the issues we wish to put forward and the exact ways we will be consulting over the next four weeks." He added: "I am hoping for a free-ranging discussion about the consultation, but it will not be a meeting where hard and fast decisions are taken." A public meeting on the proposals will then take place at the community college on August 3, with the final decision due to be taken on what goes where at the full council meeting on August 10. The district council has been forced to re-think its original plans to build new offices on land used for a market alongside the railway in Minehead after Somerset County Council withdrew its support for the scheme.