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Article: VISITOR CENTRE PLAN FOR CAVES ; Discussions held over site future
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- Plymouth Evening Herald, The
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- October 16, 2009
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PLANS for a heritage centre celebrating prehistoric bone caves in
Plymouth are "ongoing", it has been revealed.
The Cattedown Bone Caves heritage centre project stalled in 2007
after the city council approved plans for a concrete processing
plant nearby.
But Brian Lewarne, Plymouth-based honorary science officer of the
Devon Karst Research Society (DKRS), which is working to preserve
the site, said the plans are still very much alive.
He said talks were still taking place with Chevron, which owns
part of the land.
"It is ongoing," he said of the proposals. "Chevron do not use
the area any longer for oil storage.
We just need the area to be declassified so we can take it on.
These things take ...