News Historic photos handed over to Goole museum
Seen in the picture are Goole Town and East Riding councillor Pat O'Neil, Jack Sails and curator Janet Tierney.
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Victorian-era photographs of New Potter Grange, near Goole, have been donated to Goole Museum.
Mr Sayles, the son of the gardener at the historic mansion, approached Cllr Kester Dean with the photographs after he learned of the possible threat to the property.
The future of the house is uncertain after it was purchased by a Leeds-based developer, Stirling Capitol Developments, who are developing a business park nearby with £26.4 million in subsides from the tax payer.
Stirling Capitol Development are acting for the Regional Development Agency, Yorkshire Forward, through a development partnership.
Cllr Kester Dean has been investigating the latest position following concerns raised by Mr Sayles and other local people about the future of the property, which includes a walled garden, hundreds of mature trees, historic outbuildings and lots of wildlife.
He said: "There are concerns that there is an intention to destroy New Potter Grange to make way for another warehouse. This is because a past planning application included that area in the development.
"However, the plans that were finally approved by the East Riding of Yorkshire Council show that the property is definitely outside the development site and is within an area designated as an 'ecological zone'.
"Indeed, there is £26.4 million of tax-payers' money being ploughed into the business park, whose boundaries were fixed around, but not including, New Potter Grange."
Cllr Dean went on to say that, as part of the planning application, an environmental statement had to be prepared. "This statement recognises that the New Potter Grange area is of such high ecological value that it is best used to off-set the environmental damage caused by the rest of the scheme.
"There's over 200 acres of land to develop without New Potter Grange, and this attractive and historic area will make the business park much more attractive, so there's plenty of good reasons why it was decided to retain it."
Museum Curator Janet Tierney said the museum was thrilled to have the photographs, which will be hung in the stairwell.
The photos were presented at a special reception yesterday at the museum.
Published on 2nd August 2007 in News.
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