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wish to enjoy Gower should be prepared to pay for it, cannot be ignored. The surest and most satisfactory way of safeguarding some tracts of Gower as a part of the people's heritage of beauty for all time would be by purchase at a fair price and presentation to the National Trust. Thus has Thurba Head been saved from development, and some of the loveliest stretches of the Cornish coast. Protection by purchase would mean the raising of a large sum of money, perhaps through an appeal by the Gower Society and other amenity groups. But Tenby has just shown the way. There a syndicate of business men has raised £ 75,000 to purchase Kilnpark to protect the amenities of the town." The Beauty of Gower The battle for the preservation of Gower is constant and unrelenting and I am sure you will not relax your efforts by one degree. You have powerful, well-armed allies in the task you seek to do. Ever-increasing pressure for development of one kind or another must be expected and there is need for care in balancing the desire to preserve what we have, with the economic well-being of the community. It is the policy of the Glamorgan County Council that Gower should remain unspoiled by sporadic or discordant development that its great natural beauty should not be spoiled that the essential characteristics of its village life should be preserved that any development should enhance existing village structure, and that development should be suitably located and of good design. We have always got to try to act reasonably, to understand and allow the right of people to live and enjoy themselves as they wish-provided that in so doing they do not damage that which gives mjoyment and pleasure to others. We owe a great deal to the past and something to the future -if we remember that, we shall not go far wrong. -From the speech delivered by E. John Powell, Chief Planning Officer to the Glamorgan County Council, at the Annual Dinner of fhe Gower Society on 23 October, 1959.