I WAS interested to read in the Times, (December 2), the views of some recent settlers into Burrator and surrounding area. However, I would like to point out that Dartmoor is the product of numerous industrial activities, mainly forestry, mining, farming, man-made reservoirs and so on. Our economy is now revolving towards tourism.

It would appear that the ideas of a managed industry, rather than having the problems encountered in the New Forest and the Lake District are a sensible way to go. At present the roads around the Burrator Reservoir are clogged with cars so to contain them in one area seems logical.

Planning permissions for previous industrial activities were not required and it seems difficult to imagine permission now being given to build a corrugated shed, particularly when some farmers have been refused the modern counterpart for stock-keeping.

My great uncle who walked from Eggbuckland every day to help build the reservoir, for a pitiful wage would have been amused, I am sure, that the shed he may have worked in is now considered to be worth preserving. Incidentally, could the Plymouth Museum be asked to take it into their protection, as the Greeks have requested their marbles to be returned?

I have lived in this area all my life and enjoy the lovely countryside. We still need to live and work in a sustainable community and not have a park just for the chosen few.

Ann S Ellis

18 Boundary Road

Dousland