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Paul, planting orchards on Western Heights in a Scheduled National Monument was never actually an option, but perhaps along some stretches of hills further away, between Dover and Folkestone, and not only that stretch, but also along other ranges of hills around Dover (Whitfield, Guston, Buckland).
Also some fields for gardens, where people could learn to grow vegetables.
It is a community project, to evoke the interest of young people - and also people of any age - in the pleasures and delights of small-time agriculture. It is NOT a project that was intended for a Scheduled National Monument, or for the city of Hull, for that matter.
It could have also seen a few pounds coming in once the produce were sold, to the delight of young people with a few hours to spare while dedicating themselves, under expert guidance of local farmers, to a healthy service, while getting to know other like-minded people.
Yes, something to do with enjoying life, not actually crossing the battlefield with heavy rifle and bayonet levelled, drums beating and pipes sounding, hob-nailed boots marching...but enjoying nature and working in natural surroundings in our Garden of England.
Incidentally, in 2010 I made this proposal to the Dover Chamber of Commerce, and received a lovely reply from David Foley. He stated that he'd be contacting DDC on the matter, and hoped to bring it up at the next meeting with DDC.
I was really happy... told my mum...
But it all ended there, never heard anything again.
I suppose DDC had other plans for our natural surroundings, such as building tens of thousands of houses over the next few decades.
To think that the odd orchard and field here and there would have blended in nicely in the greenery, I'm not talking of thousands and thousands of such gardens in Dover or Hull?, just the odd one here and there, spread out over Dover District... possibly a few hundred or so....
It was just an idea, and would have seen young people and people of any age get together and enjoy some work in the fresh air, and reap some of the profits.
Possibly the extra tenner to add to JSA...something like that, nothing to do with rich Londoners relocating to Dover to a second house inside a National scheduled Momnument...
Lovely ideas that get clubbed down and trodden out, because they are not conform to perceived modern society, and whoever thought up such ...rubbish... as I did, really has no place in this modern society, after all I am not a rich Londoner in search of a weekend house