i what appears to be a compromise, the ine Arts Department and the embattled at Kalayanamit abbot pledged to ork together on a temple restoration plan Anandha Chuchoti, the department's director-general, met the temple abbot yes erday for the first time after Mr Anandha ook office last month. After a 30-minute meeting, Mr Anan ah said the abbot agreed to work with the department on a three tore lhe original landscape. The meeting appeared to be the fi ompromise between both parties, after onflicts began to emerge when the abbot look control in 2003. The abbot faced charges of destroying 22 registered heritage items filed by the department in 2008. A total of 54 houses around the temple were razed last month while families in the emaining seven houses have been pres ured to leave after the water and electricity was cut last week. First, the department will clear the debris f the two pavilions that were demolished y the former director-general, Borvornvate in July, he said. The second step, Mr Anandha said, would be to tear down the metal struc ured pavilions built in front of the temple's