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Thank you again to all the well-wishers for Alan's recovery - he is now on the mend although his face still looks a mess.
Yes, Alexander, after what happened, our (Alan and I) next campaign will be about the rights of pedestrians to use pavements and to be able to cross roads safely - too long has the law fallen over backwards to protect the 'wheelies' at the pedestrians expense.
However, back to Dover's present problem this is now two fold:
i. Saving the national monument of the Western Heights and the ancient Farthingloe Valley from unwanted development
ii. Getting EH to put money where there mouth is
With regards to the first, Mike (#1115) is already part of our team - glad to read your ever-excellent input on the Forum.
Regarding the second, Paul (#1112), comments on EH press release ... I too found it of interest as to how their view had changed from the 1992/3 Hearing, that I won. On that occasion, their submission was fence sitting and they did NOT attend - both of which was commented upon, in a negative way, by the Planning Inspector.
Albeit, I do see a way forward from EH press release, they said:
'We believe that the Western Heights has enormous potential to contribute to the local economy and have pledged to work with Dover District Council and other partners in harnessing this potential which is one of the council's key objectives.'
Now we should, as a town, hold them to it ... even old ladies like myself can do our bit!
Following the success of the 1992/93 Hearing it was agreed - and DDC should have it in their records, that the profits made from the Castle would be used to bring Western Heights up to maintain WH. I cannot remember the exact wording but it was from that money that the excellent work undertaken in the following couple of years was undertaken.
This was matched from KCC, DDC and private bodies to upgrade the Grand Shaft.
Then, as I have said before on this Forum, the Castle 'suddenly' stopped making a profit, then those who cared at DDC retired and at the same time, I had the elderly parents plus working full time to pay college fees.
This time, from the Forum alone, one can see that there are a lot of us who care about the same thing, although we differ on how to get there. Because of EH public statement we do have a common line of approach - put the pressure on EH to pull their finger out!!!
Lorraine
