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Peter #1258, Great idea - why not?
Brian #1253 and #1257 yes, I am pessimistic ... things can start moving in Dover in the right direction. However, as a local historian, I am very much aware that once the cart starts trundling in the right direction, local politicians, looking to for personal accolades, jump on it, take over the reins and drive it into the nearest ditch!!!
Paul #1256, I appreciate that there is a major highway problem around Stonehenge ... I am also VERY MUCH aware that following the Western Heights Planning Inquiry of 1993 - which I won - and English heritage PROMISED to put profits from Dover Castle into funding work on WH. Nevertheless, after a few years, they stopped and DDC did not bother chasing them up - reason, they were no longer pursuing a tourism policy for Dover.
When I suggested that it is now up to us to put pressure on EH to put money where their mouth is, you Paul, were against upsetting them, as WHPS have to work with them.
Surely, WHPS are working for the good of Western Heights and English Heritage have let Western Heights down in a massive way - The National Ancient Monument is At Risk and not just from neglect. There are the developers looking for a quick buck; politicians looking for money from new housing development and a Chamber of Commerce that has forgotten that it once looked after the interests of Dover per se.
Lorraine