| # | Name | Comments |
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| 51 | Robert Turner | It is vitally important that the few remaining water mills are retained as working mills and not lost to development or housing. These buildings are a an important part of Great Britain's heritage, and are irreplaceable. |
| 52 | Nick Jones | Britain's mills are an important part of our industrial, agricultural and architectural heritage. At a time when there is an increasing interest in local distinctiveness and place-making within DCMS and Local Authority policy, and when cultural tourism is a growing income generator for the UK, their survival should be a priority. They also provide employment, education and volunteering opportunities and play a vital role in the social fabric.. On top of that, they produce delicious, nutritious fresh local food. AND they use natural energy of the wind and water so contributing to the fight against climate change. Please think carefully and long term before doing irreversible damage.
Nick Jones
Chairman
Traditional Cornmillers Guild |
| 53 | Olaf Duinmaijer | I think Tilty Watermill is a perfect example of a beautiful watermill and an ignorant council. They see an unused building and immediately think: "Hey, let's use it for this or that!" They FORGET the building and also what's in it is all over a hundred, two-hundred years old! If it goes, it's GONE, people! Yes, I suppose you can "tastfully" convert it but you'll DESTROY it no matter what you do! It will no longer be a mill! Restoration is the only option!
In The Netherlands it's encouraged to restore mills. Some are even rebuilt from the ground up! Please take an example to this. Save Titly Watermill. Gone is gone. Conversion is NOT the way to go. |
| 54 | Guy Blythman | There are plenty of disused mill and other buildings with none of the internal machinery left, whose conversion no-one could object to - why pick this one? Converting Tilty Mill won't make much difference to the housing shortage - all I can say is that if it would, we must be in pretty desperate straits! |
| 55 | Anonymous | This mill must be saved. Why convert a listed building that has existed for 857 years. THe owner could afford to give it and the millpond and surounding land to be renovated by the people most concerned about it . He owes the country the right to keep this heritage building. |
| 56 | Anonymous | |
| 57 | Stephen Barker | |
| 58 | J Adair | We must keep thes wonderful old building to show the skill of long ago |
| 59 | peter watkins | |
| 60 | Bruggeman Jean | Everywhere in Europe, there are societies dedicated to save molinological
heritage , which means that more and more people are interested in mills .
In fact , this heritage is an important part of our history .Mills were used
to grind wheat to produce flour , as bread was for a long time our main food
..
But mills are also used to extract oil from oil-producing seeds , also used
to produce iron to make tools , used to crush dyeing materials for textile
and so many uses .
As we keep in museums paintings and sculptures because they show how
creative our ancestors were , we must transmit molinological heritage to our
children .
Tilty mill , with its machinery that is its wealth , is part of our heritage
.. There are less and less mills with complete machinery . It would be an
offence to deprive Tilty from its soul . |
| 61 | David Newnham | |
| 62 | Tjerk Oosterhuis | Onley once you are able to change a mill to other use. Changing back is nearly inpossible. So keep the mill and make it a wordking mill. |
| 63 | David waite | |
| 64 | guy downs | I plead the nation's industrial heritage argument. I have stopped being an office worker and went to art school and focussed on painting industrial buildings in London, primarily the large power stations. There is a great link with the past in these buildings that is lost when turned into residential use. They are sanitised by the loss of the functional use of them, as opposed to a pretty back-drop. Like a forlorn bear in a zoo. And residential development is primarily profit driven and the emphasis on the fabric is lessened somewhat by this. |
| 65 | Anonymous | |
| 66 | David | I grew up playing in and around the mill. Its great to see some cares about it.
Now living in the UAE |
| 67 | Mark Came | Who needs more apartments, distroying our heritage have these people no morals except to make money |
| 68 | John Hunt | |