The setting of Talland house in St Ives is visited by hundreds of people each year, it is a public view and its significance lies in how it was used in Woolf’s novel To the Lighthouse, as a vehicle to import and impart meaning, the mechanism of which forms an example that can be used in defining Modernism, a subject studied the world-over. The setting then is integral to the meaning of the listed buildings position as a heritage asset, not incidental and forms part of the public interest in the site. The site was Woolf's summer home in her childhood and due to her stays there suddenly stoping after her mother died, when Woolf was 13, she forever associated the loss of Talland with the loss of her mother. Subsequently, she wrote passionately about the place in many of her novels and memoirs.

A development is underway that would completely block the view of sea from the house and garden, taking away the opportunity for lovers of Woolfs' work and English Literature scholars to come and learn from physically experiencing what both sparked and infused Woolfs' work as a writer, just as engagement opportunities with the site and the story of Talland House are increasing.

Unfortunately the development has just received permission from Cornwall Council to make amendments to a set of plans on a historical, 2009, planing permission. Legal advice that we took suggests that there is a legal challenge to how those amendments got attached to the permission. If we were able to challenge this at judicial review, there is a chance that the developer would not want to build the original plans and be put off. It is not a sure way of stopping the development but this is currently our only way of impacting any change on being able to resist the view disappearing.

The cost of launching the judicial review however, is £20'000. And we need to raise the money by Monday 30th March. This is my last attempt at raising the the funds that the campaign group need. I realise that raising that much that quickly is unlikely and if we don't reach the target and are unable to go to judicial review, any funds that are donated will go towards commissioning a website with commemorative films and artworks of the view/centenary celebrations of To The Lighthouse next year in St Ives.