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Bern, if you follow Lorraine's posts, you will see that exactly that what you ask for is happening:
we are getting all the facts through. As a result, we have the possibility to view the topic from all sides.
I would also add the following:
Unless I misunderstood, and I'm sure someone will correct me here if this be the case, China Gateway International (CGI) depend on a loan from the Bank of Israel, or from an Israeli bank at any rate, in order to purchase property on Western Heights and at Farthingloe, and to then build houses.
If this is so, then CGI will try to get as much money back as possible from potential house-buyers in order to repay the loan with the interest to Israel, as well as to make their own speculative gain.
This is the main cause of land property being snapped up cheap, and then flogged off with new houses on it for a much higher cost.
In such cases where developers receive a loan, they tend to go for the highest possible profit in order to repay the loan and make their own profits.
The result is as we know: life-time mortgages for the house-buyers, and often failure to pay the monthly rate.
Now to imagine that CGI would find the many millions to invest in maintaining Napoleonic defences is hard to imagine.
I think Paul Scotchie might find this whole scheme is unworkable, and that it would, if it went ahead, lead to many tears being shed: by future home-buyers purchasing at rip-off prices, by people wishing to enjoy the Heights only to find them cemented up, by people who believed in promises to maintain the W.H. military structures, only to find that these promises were impossible to keep.
But then it would be too late!
Also, the idea that all this would bring in massive cash revenues to local shops is a fallacy.
It would just take one new shop, such as Londis (medium size supermarket) to open somewhere near Farthingloe, and the whole advantage would be gone.