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Prince Charles invited to treehouse opening
1:49pm Saturday 29th March 2008
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PRINCE Charles has been asked to open a £700,000 treehouse complex that is taking shape in the New Forest.
Two classrooms-on-stilts are being built by the Beaulieubased Countryside Education Trust (CET), which teaches city kids about rural life.
Youngsters taking part in environmental studies will be able to move from one classroom to the other using a walkway 16ft above the ground.
Ten thousand children a year will use the facility, which is springing up in woodland behind the National Motor Museum.
CET director David Bridges said: "The new buildings will make an enormous difference to the trust.
"They will replace two dilapidated classrooms. One comprises four portable buildings bolted together and the other is a timber hut that is rotting away."
Designed by a 22-year-old architecture student, the study centre will boast a glass roof, solar panels, lookout areas and a biomass boiler.
CET members are hoping the eco-friendly project will receive the royal seal of approval.
Mr Bridges added: "Lord Montagu of Beaulieu has written to Prince Charles on my behalf. His diary is full until August but the project won't be finished until then.
"We're hoping the prince will agree to perform the opening ceremony from September onwards.
"The project is all about green architecture and getting children into the countryside. It should be right up his street."
The CET has already raised £610,000 towards the cost of the project. A large chunk of the cash has been provided by the South East England Development Agency (SEEDA), which has contributed more than £200,000.
"Our existing classrooms are used by 8,000 children a year and we are hoping the figure will rise to 10,000,"
added Mr Bridges.
The role of the trust would appear to be more important than ever.
New research published last September showed that more than one million city children had never been on a trip to the countryside.
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Nit-picker, Louseville says...
3:02pm Sat 29 Mar 08
no-one, southampton says...
3:17pm Sat 29 Mar 08
The LOL'er, says...
4:19pm Sat 29 Mar 08
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paul b, says...
5:34pm Sat 29 Mar 08
Finlay, Des Moines - Iowa says...
11:49pm Sun 30 Mar 08
Charles has been selected because of his close affinity with primates and the fact he has actually married one. Camilla The Gorilla is a rare Minger Monkey with copius body hair and a rather unpleasent habit of avidly scratching her balls and frequently farting loudly with the occasional 'follow thru' which hasnt gone unnoticed by the British public and above all the Royal family. She does not sit down to dinner at Highgrove House but instead is banished to her tree house in the grounds where bananas and roled palm leaves are catapulted into her lair and she scrapes them from the walls and ceiling before consuming them noisily. Charles was instrumental in the house where Camilla spends her days and said to reporters "One cant be seen to exclude ones companion just becasue she is a primate ...can one?" The reporters were laughing too much to scribe any more of the report and trying desperately to avoid being hit but dung balls, hurled from the monkey house sporadically throughout the interview with the heir to the Throne of England.
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Get it right, Hythe says...
2:48pm Sat 29 Mar 08
What's the apostrophe for?