Save Tilty Watermill Petition : [ powered by iPetitions.com ]

#	Name	Comments
1	mike simmons	Have been walking the area for the last 40 years and the mill deserves to be restored to its original and possibly made into a wildlife area for the whole community to enjoy
2	Diana LeCore
3	Robert Sharp MBE	As a member of the Essex Mills Group and the Mills Section of the SPAB I am concerned about the possible loss of this very important mill. It has value as an educational asset and should be restored to a working condition and made available for visits by schools and other interested peresons and groups.
4	Irene Jones	Essential this hidden treasure is not destroyed. Better still if it could be restored. Irene Jones
5	Jonathan Neville	This country needs its heritage. Government targets should come second
6	Evelyn Carpenter	PLEASE do not convert this wonderful/beautiful Tilty Watermill into anything else but what it is. Here in the USA there are very few things left as lovely as your Watermill. This is so sad. On every trip to the UK that I have made I have walked by and admired this Watermill, knowing that my mother, grandparents, ancestors (before 1900) had probably touched the wall too, as I did. I hope to return and press my hand against the wall once more, visualizing, and remembering how many people this lovely old mill affected. Thanks for not destroying it!! Evelyn Carpenter (81 years old) Lucerne Valley, California, USA
7	Susan Smith
8	Denise Pallett	In a time when we could be losing so many beautiful and historically important, interesting and useful in terms of eduaction, buildings to ever expanding airport (for example) surely we should be fighting to save some?
9	Anonymous	We have restored our own Domesday site mill and have received thousands of complementary comments on the fact that it has been done.
10	Malvern Tipping	All too many fine buildings - often deliberately left to decline - are sacrificed so that greater short-term gains cam be made. Mills are very susceptible to such pressures. Tilty watermill is another such mill. The Planning Authority should not only prevent the re-development of this property, but moreover should take a pro-active role to save and conserve the mill.
11	Adam Marriott	DONT CONVERT THIS MILL its a rare survivor and to do so would be sacrilage.
12	David Mann
13	Anonymous
14	david andrews
15	Ian	Save our historical Buildings!
16	pamela Chlopas
17	gary stone
18	lesley Turner
19	Mike Thurlow	How can this happen to a grade 2 star mill. I am the miller of Letheringsett Watermill and these mills can be brought back to use with the onset of alternative energy i.e.water. We have just won the UKTV food Heroes award with the flour which we produce from localy grown wheat, not only does this support the local community but also your local economy. It is therefore very short sighted to lose to lose this valuebal asset it would also support your tourism , not forgeting this is your Heratige.
20	cari powell	tilty mill was the long term rented home of a famous canadian author elizabeth smart who wrote "by grand central station i sat down and wept".
21	Anonymous
22	Anonymous	We need to keep and restore all Mills and their history for future generations - not lose them to developers, they can never be replaced.
23	Charles Groves	Tilty mill house was indeed the home to famous poet Elizabeth Smart and her husband George Barker. Also the scottish painters Robrt Colquhoun and Robert MacBryde. They lived in the mill house (not the mill), in the 1950's when the mill house was one big house, not divided into two as it is now.
24	Chris Tugby	TOO much of our national heritage has been converted to housing for too long and it's time that places such as Tilty watermill got the protection they deserve. Many of our old mills are too far gone to be able to do anything but a change of use to residential dwelling, but Tilty mill is in a different position with much of it's machinery still there and needs little restoration compared to some to make it a valuable local historical and educational asset. I'm sure there must be plenty of other places that could be used instead of converting this 800-year-old building of historical interest into just another home or second home. Chris Tugby Mill Manager Ford End Watermill Ivinghoe Bucks
25	Sandra & David.Hutton	Sadly planning applications to convert water & windmills in to domestic dwellings has almost wiped out in this country an important part of our national heritage. It is imperative that Councils receiving such applications should turn down any application to convert what mills are left and should put their powers into getting those mills which are left with most of the machinery intact help with funding to restore these mills back to working order. The mills have played a very big part of our local structure and heritage and also helped to feed our nation.
26	Paul Palmer
27	david jones	For gods sake, this is a grade 2 star listed building! Does that not count for anything with this council. What is the point of listing if they get planning permission? Some questions really need to be asked here....
28	S.B.Whiteley	Since this watermill retains so much of its machinery it would be vandalism to empty it to create dwelling. The leat and water could at least be used to provide electrical power with green credentials.
29	Anonymous	save one of the last mills left, dont let it become another large house. let all enjoy it as a working mill again.
30	L Devonish
31	Anonymous
32	Alexander Curtis
33	Kate Harland
34	D.James	Good luck in your fight, save our heritage, dont let it be sold. Why hasnt it been restored by the council before now?
35	Andrew Findon	This mill should clearly be restored, not house converted, which would be a waste of an important historical resource.
36	Barry Carter	Save our history, it can never be replaced.
37	Ron Roper	I was involved with Stotfold mill in Bedfordshire. The mill has been rebuilt from a burnt out wreck to full working order, Showing that with local support anything is possible. See our website at www. stotfoldmill.org
38	RON ROBINSON	GOOD LUCK-SAVE THIS NATIONALLY IMPORTANT HERITAGE MILL
39	F Pack
40	Mr. M. H. Edgeworth	As a grade 2* building we cannot afford to let another historic building get converted, let alone another mill complete with machinery. What will our descendants think of us for allowing the destruction of their history. It should be restored to working order and made to work as a demonstation centre. I speak as one who regulary demonstates a working water mill where the public show an increasing interest in its workings.
41	Anonymous	I moved into tilty mill with my mum and dad and 4 sisters and 3 brothers in 1953 and left in 1964 my dad was the stockman at the mill and used the mill to grind the corn for the cows for feed it would be a shame to see the mill turned into houses
42	Colin Bowden	It is astonishing that Uttlesford Council seems to have completely ignored all the objections to this planning application to convert this mill
43	Brian Shingler	I am writing to object to the conversion of Tilty watermill to residential, and would like to see efforts to restore it to working condition supported. At Gants Mill in Somerset (www.gantsmill.co.uk) we have restored the fabric of the building, maintained the corn grinding machinery, which is in regular use. We have also installed a hydropower plant to generate green electricity, landscaped the gardens, and are open two days a week to the general public. Yesterday afternoon, a Thursday, we had 72 people to visit the mill. I am sure that a similar scheme at Tilty would help preserve the mill in working condition for future generations to enjoy. Brian Shingler Gants Mill, Bruton Somerset BA10 0DB 01749 812393
44	dave bragg	Its priceless. Let it be as it is
45	Craig Taylor	This grade 2* mill is a rare and important building and should be preserved as a mill and not converted in any way to residental use. I would support a sympathetic residential scheme on the adjoining land or buildings which would enable the mill to be preserved and guarantee its repair. Any agreement would need to be a legally binding (eg Section 106).
46	Anita Thompson
47	David
48	a. smith	SAVE IT
49	Audrey Steeley	We at Heron Corn Mill in Beetham South Cumbria, wish to object to the conversion of the grade II* listed watermill known as Tilty Watermill. A significant historical building can be put to good use for the benefit and education of the public.
50	Anonymous