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  Well there are another 56 or so documents available on the DDC planning portal to work through so I have some busy xmas reading to do, but to start with some comments.
  
  A £5 million pot to the heritage could open the potential of Heritage Lottery Funding and you could possibly see that topped up by maybe another £20million. Either way it is a reasonable sum to be able to make a difference and create a self funding tourist attraction
  
  The housing removed around Heights Terrace should certainly please the residents, the conversion of the fire damaged Victoria Hall and some development along the ridge where the sheds are is rather minimal now.
  
  The artists impressions of the Hotel show that it doesn't intrude the views and if you don't know it was there you'd probably have trouble seeing it. The site there is huge but I'll need to look at the plans in details.
  
  Again all this is with my non-WHPS hat on as is a committee decision on what the views are but I will add that we are having (very very early) discussions with people with regards the Heights and Fort Burgoyne around possible heritage skills training, which could potentially create jobs at the same time as looking after the heritage. In conjunction with the above it could make a big difference
  
  Above all we need to remember we are only guardians of our heritage, we need to make sure we do the right thing so it is still there in hundreds of years to come. How we get there may need some out of the box thinking and some compromise....

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