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An urgent request!!!</div>
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<div style="widows: 1;"><font face="Times New Roman,sans-serif">I am writing regarding a pending decision by the Cornwall Council Planning Committee as indicated below. Kristin Czarnecki, Paula Maggio, and Maggie Humm have all weighted in on the very threatening
plan. </font></div>
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<div style="widows: 1;"><font face="Times New Roman,sans-serif">Your voice could be a deciding factor in a current plan that would block the view from Talland House in St. Ives. </font></div>
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<div style="widows: 1;"><font face="Times New Roman,sans-serif">If you are sharing our concerns, please contact the</font><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Times New Roman', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19.45599937438965px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><a href="mailto:planning@cornwall.gov.uk" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(38, 94, 21); font-family: 'Times New Roman', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19.45599937438965px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); padding: 0px; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none; border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed;">Cornwall
Council Planning Committe</a><font face="Times New Roman,sans-serif">e regarding</font><font color="#333333" face="Times New Roman,sans-serif" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="line-height: 19.4559993743897px;"> </span></font><a href="http://planning.cornwall.gov.uk/online-applications/applicationDetails.do?activeTab=summary&keyVal=NO1CS3FGJC300" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(38, 94, 21); font-family: 'Times New Roman', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 19.4559993743897px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none; border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed;">application
PA15/04337</a><font color="#333333" face="Times New Roman,sans-serif" style="widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><span style="line-height: 19.4559993743897px;">, which </span></font><span style="line-height: 19.45599937438965px;">would</span><font color="#000000"><span style="line-height: 19.4559993743897px;"> block
the view from Talland House permanently with the installation of a block of six flats and a car park. </span></font></font></div>
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<div style="widows: 1;"><font color="#333333" face="Times New Roman,sans-serif" style="widows: 1;"><font color="#000000"><span style="line-height: 19.4559993743897px; background-color: rgb(255, 254, 254);">To reiterate, share your views with the committee via
your opinions regarding</span></font></font><font face="Times New Roman,sans-serif" style="font-size: 15px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="line-height: 19.4559993743897px;"> </span></font><a href="http://planning.cornwall.gov.uk/online-applications/applicationDetails.do?activeTab=summary&keyVal=NO1CS3FGJC300" target="_blank" style="font-size: 15px; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); font-family: 'Times New Roman', sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 19.4559993743897px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none; border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed;">application
PA15/04337</a> before July 14. </div>
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<div style="widows: 1;">Feel free to use Paula Maggio and Kristin Carznecki’s letter modified it as necessary (see attachment) or my own letter (also below after Paula and Kristin’s comments). </div>
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<div style="widows: 1;">The looming decision—July 14—looms ahead. Speak out!!!</div>
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<div style="widows: 1;">From Paula and Kristin:</div>
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<div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; widows: auto;">I am sending this email on behalf of Kristin Czarnecki, IVWS president, who is traveling and does not have a computer available. </div>
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<div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; widows: auto;">Kristin has sent the letter copied below to the Cornwall Council Planning Committee to protest the proposed construction of a block of six flats that will eradicate the view Virginia Woolf had from
Talland House. We invite you to use any portion of the letter below to craft your own message to the committee to object to this plan that will destroy a vital piece of literary history.</div>
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<div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; widows: auto;">Please send your email to the committee before Tuesday, July 14, 2015, as that is the date the committee is expected to act on the plan. Send it to <a href="mailto:planning@cornwall.gov.uk">planning@cornwall.gov.uk</a> We
were not able to locate the number of the application for the plan, but please don't let that dissuade you from using your voice.</div>
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<div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; widows: auto;">You may also want to consider posting a message on the Cornwall Council Facebook page (at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/forCornwall?fref=ts">https://www.facebook.com/forCornwall?fref=ts</a>), and/or
tweeting a message to the Council @CornwallCouncil</div>
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<div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; widows: auto;">For more information, visit this post on Blogging Woolf: <a href="https://bloggingwoolf.wordpress.com/2015/07/09/view-from-talland-house-threatened-by-planned-development/">https://bloggingwoolf.wordpress.com/2015/07/09/view-from-talland-house-threatened-by-planned-development/</a></div>
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<div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; widows: auto;">Dear Cornwall Council Planning Committee:
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<div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; widows: auto;">The view Virginia Woolf had of the Cornish coast is under threat by the proposed construction of a block of six flats and a car park near Talland House in St. Ives. This view of St Ives from Talland
House is an important piece of literary history, one that the Cornwall Council and the St. Ives Town Council should work to preserve, not destroy.
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<div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; widows: auto;">When Woolf scholars and readers from around the world visit St. Ives, they come to walk the streets she walked and see the views she saw during her lifetime. When they come, they bring tourist dollars
with them. The Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf will be held in England in 2016 and 2017, and many scholars and common readers are expected to arrive early or stay on so they can visit St. Ives, hoping to again see the town as Woolf did --
and to explore the surrounding Cornwall area. </div>
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<div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; widows: auto;">The views themselves are an important part of the inherent beauty of the charming town of St. Ives and are a vital part of the town's literary history. It is important that these views be preserved
for future scholars and readers, as they lend understanding to Woolf's life and work, particularly her 1927 novel To the Lighthouse.</div>
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<div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; widows: auto;">The view from Talland House has inspired new scholarship and allowed new insights into Woolf's work. When those of us who teach share those views and those insights with our students, they are impressed
by the beauty of St. Ives and are eager to develop their own insights into the novel and plan their own trips to Cornwall.
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<div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; widows: auto;">On July 14, 2015, when you consider the May 8, 2015, planning application submitted by Porthminster Beach View Ltd., please vote no. You will be preserving a vital piece of literary history that will
continue to bring tourist dollars into your community.</div>
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<div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; widows: auto;">Best regards,</div>
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<div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; widows: auto;">Kristin Czarnecki</div>
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<div style="widows: 1;">From Vara Neverow, <span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;">Regarding application PA15/04337 submitted by Porthminster Beach View Ltd.</span></div>
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Dear <a href="mailto:planning@cornwall.gov.uk" target="_blank" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 94, 21); border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed;">Cornwall Council
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<font color="#333333" face="Times New Roman,sans-serif"><span style="line-height: 19.4559993743897px;">I am writing in regard to </span></font><a href="http://planning.cornwall.gov.uk/online-applications/applicationDetails.do?activeTab=summary&keyVal=NO1CS3FGJC300" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(38, 94, 21); font-family: 'Times New Roman', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19.4559993743897px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none; border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed;">application
PA15/04337</a><font color="#333333" face="Times New Roman,sans-serif"><span style="line-height: 19.4559993743897px;">, which proposes construction of a block of flats and a car park that will block the view of the Godrevy Lighthouse from Talland House where
the</span></font><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Times New Roman', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19.4559993743897px;"> internationally revered author </span><font color="#333333" face="Times New Roman,sans-serif"><span style="line-height: 19.4559993743897px;">Virginia
Woolf and her family resided during the summers from her infancy in 1882 until 1894, the year before her mother’s death. </span></font></p>
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<font color="#333333" face="Times New Roman,sans-serif"><span style="line-height: 19.4559993743897px;">These exquisitely beautiful summers in St. Ives shaped Woolf</span><span style="line-height: 19.45599937438965px;">’</span><span style="line-height: 19.4559993743897px;">s
creative expression and was especially influential in</span></font><font color="#333333" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span style="line-height: 19.45599937438965px;"> </span></font><i style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 19.4559993743897px;">To
the Lighthouse</i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 19.4559993743897px;">, her 1927 masterpiece, which is one of her most famous and cherished novels. Much of the novel's beauty and
intensity is derived directly from the author's own keen sense of place in St. Ives and her vivid memories of the glorious view of the lighthouse and the bay seen from the exact spot where Talland House still stands. </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 19.4559993743897px;">For Woolfians and other literary fans to be able see to the lighthouse itself from where Woolf herself did is an epiphany, a
revelation, and a truly priceless experience. </span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Times New Roman', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19.4559993743897px;">The proposed construction plan directly threatens this iconic view of the
lighthouse. Preserving this stunning view of the lighthouse and the bay intact for future generations of visitors is paramount given that literary travels in the United Kingdom are source of significant revenue. However, protecting such sites is a critical
not just for the tourist business but for the integral history of St. Ives itself. </span></p>
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<font color="#333333"><span style="line-height: 19.4559993743897px;">Just as hundreds of fans of the Bront</span></font><span class="st" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 19.4559993743897px;">ë</span><font color="#333333"><span style="line-height: 19.4559993743897px;">s make
their pilgrimages to Haworth yearly, so too hundreds of Woolf scholars and readers visit St. Ives to see Talland House, to view the lighthouse from that precise location, to understand what shaped Woolf</span><span style="line-height: 19.45599937438965px;">’</span><span style="line-height: 19.4559993743897px;">s
vision of the place, to explore the environment of St. Ives itself and to experience this intensely beautiful setting of her childhood. </span></font></p>
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<font color="#333333"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 254, 254);"><span style="line-height: 19.4559993743897px;">In 2016 and 2017, Woolf scholars from around the world will be gathering at the Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf, held
next year in </span><span style="line-height: 19.45599937438965px;">Leeds</span><span style="line-height: 19.4559993743897px;"> and the following year in Reading. Many are already planning their trips, which will certainly include visits to St. Ives. Further,
in 2018, the conference is expected to be held in Paris, and once again, many of the participants will travel to the UK and to St. </span><span style="line-height: 19.45599937438965px;">Ives</span><span style="line-height: 19.4559993743897px;">. </span></span></font></p>
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On behalf of multitudes of Woolfians and other literary pilgrims, I entreat you to honor preservation over development. <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 19.4559993743897px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">When on 14 July 2015, you consider
the planning application from 8 May 2015 submitted by Porthminster Beach View Ltd., please vote no and thereby protect the literary, cultural and historical heritage of St. Ives for generations to come.</span></p>
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<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 19.4559993743897px; background-color: rgb(255, 254, 254);">Thank you for considering this appeal. </span></p>
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