[Hardy-l] Two Mile Wood

[Tony Fincham]

Rosemarie,

I quite agree with what you are saying but rechecking the web sites,
I think it is too late to do anything about it:

http://www.dorsetforyou.com/index.jsp?articleid=3463

states that contrary to my previous belief, the development has full
planning permission & that the necessary compulsary purchase orders
have been made. Certainly archaeological digging is happening to
the east of the Ridgeway near Came Down - this is just a sop to
conservation before the bulldozers move in.

www.bettertransport.org.uk/media/press_releases/october_2008/weymouth -

gives the opponents view but it seems that it is a fait accompli.

I think that Dorset CC are beyond persuasion on this issue.
Oliver Letwin, the MP for West Dorset has strong Green credentials;
he can be reached via his secretary, Angela Charles at 
charlesa at parliament.uk

Regards,

Tony.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rosemarie Morgan" <Rosemarie.morgan at yale.edu>
To: <hardy-l at coyote.csusm.edu>
Sent: Saturday, October 25, 2008 12:09 AM
Subject: Re: [Hardy-l] Two Mile Wood


> Just give me some addresses Tony -- names and addresses?  The prob with 
> Dorset CC is that that they're mainly interested in making things easier 
> for the  tourist industry. And the problem with The THSoc is that anything 
> that brings more people into Hardy country the better they like it.  I'm 
> sorry you had a shouting match - Tony but that's we all ever get at THSoc 
> Council meetings when trying to protest in favour of preserving the 
> pristine countryside . What's left of it.  It seems to me so extraordinary 
> not to know what a precious legacy this is. Rural England is a "jeweL" as 
> one writer expressed it.  It is uniquely beautiful and cannot be 
> replicated once destroyed. .
>
> The difficulty  for the THSoc is, I think, being on the spot. The precious 
> legacy of English countryside isn't precious to local folk so much as 
> tedious when you can't get from A- to- B because of summer traffic.  It 
> was the same when I lived in Swanage. The hotels and council members 
> battling for a bypass to help push money into that tiny, erstwhile 
> fishing-town (bursting at the seams with fishn'chip shops and grimy 
> cafes), and the rest of us howling to keep the wetlands intact between the 
> Isle of Purbeck and Wareham.  In the end, there was a compromise of sorts 
> and the "by-pass" is in fact a small road that circles Wareham and nothing 
> much else - for that I suppose we shd be grateful
>
> But from Weymouth to Dorchester it seems almost ludicrous  to build a 
> bypass -yet another "Swanage"story in a way for it's not a large town even 
> though it is a port-town. And what's wrong with cycling or walking the 
> distance -- as Hardy did? (I suppose folk are too much in a rush to walk 
> these days). Wdn't it be great if people cd get back into horse-riding so 
> that they cd use the bridle-pathways / Weymouth - Dorchester. ?
>
> Yes yes fanciful -- (I do go off into a dream don't I?)
>
> Anyway -- if you can send me names and addresses, Tony,  I'll do my 
> militant bit and if anyone on the Forum wd like to put their names to a 
> petition just email me and I'll add your name.
>
> Coincidentally, I had a letter (with images) from Bincombe recently which 
> I 've just published in the latest Hardy Review, Xii--  relating to "The 
> Melancholy Hussar:  (not the bypass.)  So readers will be able to view the 
> scene very shortly and decide for themselves if they think a bypass (in US 
> terms an Interstate)  a suitable item of modern progress.
>
> Cheers
> Rosemarie
>
>>As far as I can see this is a lost cause -
>>Bw
>>
>>Tony Fincham.
>
>
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