[Gayle]

Some of the schemes had plans included to dress up the shelter and restore the monument and paths but that's when people (mostly PB) started saying that we were blackmailing them into having a panopticon. This simply was not true, we were saying that we had the money for a panopticon and on the back of that we were looking to raise additional funding for all the rest of the stuff. If we (MPA) weren't building a panopticon then there was no reason for us to be involved otherwise but other bodies, including the council, could quite happily have pursued funding for the other stuff on their own - they haven't done to my knowledge.

I think that now it has got to a point where the name itself causes the problems. For instance, in Ribble Valley the nicest design was a wall - it was slightly subtly coloured and it had a featured window in it but essentially all it was was a wall. If we had gone to RV and said, we think this site is a bit dangerous because it's on the edge of a quarry so we'd like to build you a pretty viewing platform and wall and oh, by the way, it has a bit of a feature window in it would that be ok? I firmly believe they'd have said yes. But, we went to them with a design competition to build a sculpture and we got some other designs which the press had a field day with and which again got stuck in people's minds so the whole thing was never going to get off the ground.