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First up, thanks for a long and thought out reply.
Fairly much all things I had thought of myself, though I had not thought about putting a sound system out there. I do have an old AVR that could be pressed into service. With a wifi link back to the house it could even be used with a lean XBMC box to source the music off our server (All our media is on a NAS) or even cheesy movies that don't get the nod in the house! If we are imaging with laptops etc running then our dark adaptation is history anyway, we might as well watch bad scifi.
Good to see that I am not too far off in my thinking, though I possibly would not have allowed enough by way of cabling space which is ironic as I work in the comms industry, I might get a bit creative there and fit multiple 32mm conduits in the piers (multiple smaller ones to preserve the integrity, plus power cables could be run separate to data) and take them to a comms pit in the floor which can have a P100 conduit into the warm room to allow for plenty of cable space.
I was actually thinking of solar panels to run some ventilation fans to keep heat at bay in the summer and condensation in the winter and was thinking I would fully line the "Work" room. I Have to be careful now, my wife has realised that if I am at home but not in the house she sleeps badly. Best not to mention bunks!
Given my headlight sweep issue I am not too sure if I should go for lower walls and some temporary screening outside while appropriate height trees I will plant around it grow out to block light, or higher walls and not worry too much about the greenery. Higher walls could help with wind too but so would trees. Given some knowledge of windbreak lines (Largely lost in the fire unfortunately) multiple rows of semi wind permeable trees could be a real help where a single line of heavy trees actually creates turbulence, as might high walls.
I was also thinking to paint yellow circles around each pier, figure out the maximum envelope size of the mounted scopes and add half a mater. That way it should be visible in the dark and you can be happy that if you don't set foot in the circles as you walk past, you wont bump into anything.
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