The steps to nowhere

These steps are just outside the front door of my building. They lead nowhere. I think they are the relics after a forgotten project that was abandoned. They lead to a wild area, enclosed by a high wall that originally enclosed the orchard garden of the old Lews Castle (really a big old house, not a castle at all) I have always hoped that we could landscape the area with bushes and flowers and benches for the recreation of staff and students - but there never seems to be any money for this... :-(