Taking the term at face value is simply a wonderful way for us to promote our own Golden Green Triangle that already has the Clent Hills CP as the glorious climax as you move from the M5 westwards over the foothills, fields, woods, the Dowery Dell Adventure Trail and fishing pools to the Clent Hills and Wychbury Hill themselves.
It is another tool in the toolbox for us to use in insisting that this most important triangle is sacrosanct and available only for farming and recreation. Nothing else!
On Friday, James Morris suggested to me that it might be an AONB. That's fine with me if we can't get it with an even more important designation like a National Park reserve for the urban dwellers of the W Midlands. Or, as the Clent Hills Regional Park. Any such designation frightens off the greedy concrete, brick and tarmac brigade and helps our cause.
The people - ourselves - must hi-jack the term/phrase for our own ends and must make the two words, National Park, to mean exactly what it so blindingly obvious must mean or, should mean, at any rate. A people takeover!
Any such talk like this bolsters up or talks up the high importance of our 32 sq Kms in the corridors of power for only farming and recreation.
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