"Joe Hunt" wrote in message
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/devon/5136316.stm

With all the government's heatwave hyperbole and stories of litigation
overriding common sense I thought this was vaguely on topic.

Joe



Big talking point today in Devon media!

Personally having moved to an area which is wild and where one can experience
nature "in the raw" the thought of such a development leaves me horror-struck.
The person proposing it obviously has no idea what winter conditions are like on
the Tor summit. 60 mph winds, horizontal heavy driving rain, and icing at times
with heavy snow. I would suggest that any moving strucrure is going to need an
awful lot of maintenance. A granite path from the car park would also be very
slippery in wet weather, there is an easy grass track up there so I don't even
see the point in this. Ah well Dartmoor National Park won't allow it that's for
sure as all development is very very carefully scrutinised. And what would
happen at the top, will it be fenced to stop people falling off, and why stop
there why not make all the Tors more bleedin accessible. I'm now too old to
learn to climb Mont Blanc summit but do I ask for a stairlift to take me to the
top? Of course not. Yes there but for the grace of God go I but if I was infirm
the last thing I would want to do would be spoil other people's enjoyment of
nature at her naked best just for my benefit.

Will (who actually lives in Haytor)
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