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The National Trust
The Beach: A prime piece of beach area, Studland Bay in Dorset, may look idyllic, but it's at the centre of a conflict between the Trust and those who want to use it.

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There was a guy called Julian who appears to be the head honcho for that area in the NT. How the villagers managed not to knock his head into tomorrow I will never know.

The program was mostly focused on the fact the NT want to move their offices into a an old farm barn in the village, using the farm yard as the car park. They had a town meeting where this Julian just patronised the community and sneered at the people who were unhappy, especially with the prospect of 100 odd cars trying to park in the sleepy village.

Their application was turned down, even though out of around 100 people at the meeting 94 odd said they did not want it, the NT still applied. So the meeting was ignored, shocks. The camera now on the Julian chap, who smirked saying we will just keep applying until it is accepted, what a twat!

Then they had a meeting with a stables near by, one of the ladies complaining that the bridle path on the heather had been concreted. She was told pretty much to stop winging and that heaths had to be maintained or they WILL turn to forest. hm, ok, I can point the NT to quite a few that have not. The lady turned around and said she had been riding it for something like 35 years before the NT got to it and started fencing and concreting and it had not changed yet in the last 12 months the NT had ruined it. He (Julian) just blurted back about managing heath land.

The final part was on the beach, the sea had eroded the sand hills and a few of the huts had collapsed. The huts belonged to villagers who had been protesting at the village meeting. Julian was laughing in a kind of ha ha karma type of way.

He was really condescending about the naturists, pretty much it seemed, they are trying to get rid of them, because, he, Julian does not like it. Since when does the concerns of a community fall to one prat who was not even elected.

I will never ever donate to the NT again, I was shocked and now I see what people have been saying on here.

If it is repeated I will try to video it for those without digi boxes.

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