All this information is availabe on the council’s website (but you need to dig for it, and I can understand why, as there could well be a hidden agenda)

I’ve no issue with the land being farmed. It’s hard work, I know, and if you want to keep it green, that’s ideal.

My concern was that Orange were so determined to put a telephone mast up there, or (even worse) that the land might one day be sold for development.

As you rightly say, the land looks wonderful right now, and it would be very sad for everyone in Guildford if it were spoiled.

I can confirm that the council has talked to me about giving up 18 acres, and I can also confirm I am dead against giving it up, as it would make my arable business un-economic. Current grain prices have increased 300% in the last year – GBP182.00 per ton from GBP60.00 per ton, and I see this as a continuing trend as more and more land is taken out of food production for the use of growing bi-fuels – DEFRA agree as does the EU – for your information, farmers are being encouraged to put set-aside land back into food production for this particular reason.

I have invested a conciderable amount of time and money in this land, and am not going to give it up without a fight!

As for your comment ‘I’ve noticed over the past few months that many people have started to walk these fields whilst exercising their dogs and en route with their children to Holy Trinity School.’ – this is laughable, and not the case. I have lived on the farm for 20 odd years, and I have not seen any increase in the number of people walking across the Downs.

You people are the ones who jump up and down when you have to pay higher prices for food, but want to take farm land out of food production for a ‘nice view’. You can not have it both ways. And anyway, whats wrong with a field of barley blowing in the wind? I think it is a marvelous sight, and am sure many people would agree with me.

So please, get off my case!

Thank you to everyone who wrote to express a view.

Let’s hope this means that Pewley Down will remain safe for some time to come, and for future generations to enjoy.

There is now a plan afoot to purchase more land from South Warren Farm, in fact the same field on the northern slope exactly where Orange had wanted to place their mast. The aim is to add this area on to Pewley Down as an extension of the public open space.

I’ve noticed over the past few months that many people have started to walk these fields whilst exercising their dogs and en route with their children to Holy Trinity School.

It would be marvellous if this land could be made available to the public on a more formal basis – it boasts wonderful northward views across Guildford to the cathedral as well as northeast to Woking and on towards London beyond.

I’ll keep you posted of further progress.

I wonder if these might also prove useful in certain related contexts:

Incarjection – the act of objecting to enroachment;

and/or rather less tastefully perhaps (?)

Incarjerkate – the act of consuming fast food whilst driving an SUV …

Enroachment: the pervasive effect of SUVs on wild places.

Even better, I particularly admired your word selection in referring to the blight of 4×4 SUVs as:

‘the enroachment of all terrain vehicles’.

Actually, I’m not quite sure whether that was an intentional typo or not, but I’ll tell you what – it’s such an incredibly elegant phrase that it’s well worth using again …

It doesn’t have to be that way, and I’ve started fighting it here in various and sundry small ways. The very best to you, Roads, in a fight that is well worth the frustrations.

The tobacco analogy refers to the similarity in findings of the researchers. back then the scientists ruled after a ten year study that results were ‘inconclusive’ – we all know what happened next.