It seems as though the cloth-eared and terminally hard-of-thinking are very much in evidence this week. First we have the announcements of forthcoming "improvements" made by the dear leader, and now we have the new proposals for the Panopticon.
Beard, the designer, says that "My belief is that the public input has lent the project a strength and meaning which it could never have had without it" Hmmmm, I'll bet. The proposed redisgn will now cover an area 100 metres in diameter - obliterating a significant part of the trench system which, as I seem to recall, people were rather protective about.
It is also stated that the 1000 cubic metres of earth required for the project will be found on site and not brought in from somewhere else.
It is intended that the rings will retain rainwater. Thus providing a suitable habitat for bog plants and somewhere else for your little darlings to drown themselves in. The furrows are going to be 9 metres from base to tip! (around 27 feet)
The Peel Monument will be subject to an application for restoration funding to the Architectural Heritage Trust and the Association for Building Preservation Trusts. Who may, or may not, agree to fund the repair and restoration. The MacAlpine shelter will be demolished and replaced with picnic tables, Which will last five minutes and will end up either in flames or at the bottom of the Coppice.
You can read a more detailed description here...
http://www.panopticons.uk.net/news/n...5_hyndburn.htm