[Neil]

I do think that HBC were very narrow minded when they turned the idea down. Looking back it is a shame that the Council could not have reached an agreement for some free investment and publicity.
I think the residents (and possibly the Council) never fully understood that the money could only be spent on that type of development and got hung up on what else they could have spent the same amount of money on. With the amount of publicity for the surrounding areas the panopticons are causing, lets hope HBC learn a lesson by all this.