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  Personally....
  
  The Western Heights are an area that isn't going to get major funding at any time in the future. English Heritage have reallocated a lot of their money to key sights meaning millions are being spent at the Castle in the coming 3-5 years (every exciting and the most major developments there in a very long time).
  
  The Lottery fund is getting a lot harder to get money from and with so much money elsewhere in the town, it is unlikely that they will get the major funding that is required.
  
  IF the allocation of land to an award winning and high class development that isn't to the detriment of the rest of the site and will secure the future of the heritage then it will have to be a good compromise. The there is 4-5 miles of moats and fortifications there that are all in desparate need for work and to redevelop an area that is achaeologically ruined already may be a way to get the money that is required to get the Drop Redoubt and surrounding areas opened to the public and the Grand Shaft accessible again.
  
  We are never going to get a museum up there that can be self-funding as the infrastructure cannot take it - the Society does what it can, but it is a losing battle. A war memorial on it's own may not work, but to tie in this, a heritage centre, visitor centre, world class confence centre may eventually get the Heights working properly.

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