Re: Holburne Museum, Bath, England - Extension refused!

[Holburne]

I know what I'm doing. Unfortunately, the Heritage Lottery Fund, an organisation set up to spend lottery money, does not. They have extended the deadline on their funding decision to allow the Holburne trustees to lodge an appeal against the decision.

This is the HLF adopting dual standards, and giving the Holburne extra time to subject Bath to this vandalism.

So, the battle begins again. Another application to stop. Another fight to save Bath's heritage from the destruction of medal chasing architects. Bath does not need award winning buildings. It is a gem all by itself, preserved in a century and a half of being unfashionable. Now it is fashionable again, the developers are circling, ready to pick off any development opportunity, at the expense of the city's uniqueness.

Regards from

Vince

>> >>> >>> >>> The Holburne Museum, Bath, England, has had the planning application >>> refused >>> by Bath's Development Control Committee. >>> >>> This is good news indeed. >>> >>> But the battle is not over. The Holburne museum is planning to appeal. >>> The >>> local MP, Don Foster, is trying the get the Heritage Lottery Fund to >>> extend >>> their funding decision deadline, to accommodate the appeal process. >>> >>> So, please go to the website, and help with the fight. >>> >>> The Holburne must be prevented from further diluting classical city of >>> stone >>> with glass and tile. Seewww.HaltTheHolburne.comfor details. >> >> How about if they put a glass and steel bubble over the entire city, >> pump in argon gas and evict all the people? That should preserve it >> for a long time. > > At least priorityman got off his keester and did something about a > situation that bugged him....instead of merely sitting around whining > about how no one listens to him, the way most people do. It's his town, > and a fairly notable one from an architectural/historical point of view, > so I'm guessing the issue of context is more important there than in your > average American strip. I just hope he knows what he's doing... >