Chairman of the Trust - TrustNews July 1991
At long last work on the Heritage Centre is within sight of completion, as you will learn elsewhere in this edition of the Newsletter. As a result of an extensive facelift both within and without we believe that the Centre will be a very much pleasanter place both for visitors and for the volunteers who man it, and we look forward to the future with confidence. We hope that the Centre will be open by the time this Newsletter is in your hands and we urge you to pay it a visit.
A report from the Development Control Committee will bring you abreast on the planning front. The Trust is particularly delighted that the City has now abandoned plans to build a public car park on the Lower Barracks site and we can fairly claim to have played some part in the campaign which led recently to the final defeat of this proposal at a meeting of Winchester City Council.
There is surely no more important conservation project in Winchester than the restoration of the Cathedral, for which a major appeal has been launched. The Trust is contributing £2500 to the appeal, and in case any members are not aware of it, there is more information in this issue.
Finally, some members may not know of the Dever Society which is combatting plans by Eagle Star Properties to build a new town of 5000 houses on agricultural land at Micheldever Station. Winchester Preservation Trust limits its concerns to the Winchester area but this is a cause which members may well wish to support as individuals, and in this issue we print a short article, contributed by the Dever Society, explaining the situation.