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  Times have changed and no-one is going to come along and give the millions of pounds that the Heights need to fully preserve them no matter how much we wish they would
  
  All parties now realise that there needs to be some compromise in how investment in sought, if some sort of commercial money is needed to develop parts of the Heights to preserve others then it might have to go this way. For instance if someone were to come along and build a high class conference centre/hotel on the Grand Shaft Barracks, that was sensitively build and helps preserve other areas. The old South Front Barracks site could be used. The old Victoria Hall site could be cleared and developed. The site of the old Church could be utilised.
  
  I am not saying build 1000 houses up there like the DDC document does (just calculated on density vs area), but done correctly 'might' work. We can't get stuck on the past like some people want to happen with the docks, new uses need to be found for sites that make them both self-funding.
  
  I can see that if the Heights are invested in and complements the Castle then the town/heritage between could prosper..
  
  PS - this is a personal view and not of the Western Heights Preservation Society.
  
  English Heritage have had 30%+ removed from their budget so funding is even less likely to come from that direction and the deterioration is getting worse by the year.

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