Oh dear, Keith.
The idea of having a new exam centre has been floating around for some time. GTS suggested, not surprisingly, that the new venue be in Bournemouth and others, amongst them me, suggested that it be elsewhere.
The CAA put out a specification for a trial which was that the new centre should should seat 70, have catering and car park facilities to match and be available free of charge. Not surprisingly, the last point is a stumbling block, particularly as the CAA rake in over half a million pounds a year in exam fees and at the moment pay Oxford, Silsoe and Glasgow for the use of their facilities. Your attempt to put forward your spare classroom was doomed to failure from the outset because it failed to meet the basic specification, you can hardly blame the other Bournemouth schools for not willingly supporting such an idiot idea . Why not use Clowns spare classroom instead, or GTS's?
For my money, they need an exam centre somewhere near Manchester, not another one in the south.