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    Some history/future (with a small WHPS hat on):

    The Western Heights Preservation Society was founded in 2000 with the aims of promoting and preserving the heritage of the Western Heights and at that time had no base and was a small group carrying occasional walks and mostly little picks and weedcutting etc

    During that time it has secured access to and been able open regularly the Drop Redoubt from EH and Grand Shaft from DDC, and proved to be one of the larger events in the Dover calendar drawing thousands of people from all over the country. A huge achievement more recently has been to do "Schedule Monument Consent" works which is no mean feat on a properly WHPS have no ownership of.

    More recently WHPS have been approached by EH to look at a more longer term management agreement which would give more autonomy to what they can do and also act as leverage to open up funding opportunities.

    All rather positive steps in the right direction and certainly not bridges to burn, as it has taken a long time to be able to be talked to 'on a level' rather than just a keen group of amateurs in it for short term.

    Negotiation rather than alienation......

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