JOHN Taylor (Tavistock Forward) claims that redevelopment of the Guildhall site as a mining museum might ?quadruple? visitor numbers to the town.
Perhaps our council can save £10,000 in consultancy costs by referring his ideas to the Cornish Mining World Heritage Site Bid Partnership.
The partnership represents 73 organisations ranging from local authorities, national agencies, funding bodies, academic and research bodies, landowners and mining companies - maybe it?s time that Tavistock Forward got themselves on the list. CMWHSBP appears to have the funding and planning all under control, so why
duplicate effort and expense?
As for the Drake connection? Very competently and entertainingly presented at Buckland Abbey. The Abbey? Well, what?s left of it might merit some new information boards but it?s not exactly Fountains Abbey.
Perhaps instead the police, who own the Guildhall building, could adapt it as their new larger police station. Surely the reassuring presence of police vehicles parked in the heart of the town contributes in some measure to our relatively low crime rate; has the effect of their absence been considered and costed?
Ann Keelan
140 Whitchurch Road
Tavistock