ENGLISH HERITAGE is the Government’s statutory adviser on the historic environment. They have been sending positive replies to those writing in with concerns about the deterioration of local monument Paull Holme Tower (see Appeal). Below is the reply received by the Hedon Blog:
English Heritage is working with the owner of Paull Holme Tower to explore sustainable uses to secure the future of the monument.
We have been in very positive discussions with the owner and have offered a grant of £27,000 towards the production of a costed condition survey, feasibility study and options appraisal for the site as well as providing some temporary repairs to the building to secure it in the short term.
We have worked with the owner to ensure his grant application meets our funding requirements and conditions one of which requires that the grantee should use a suitably qualified professional adviser – either a conservation accredited architect or Chartered Surveyor and they should have been appointed following a competitive tendering process. English Heritage would not be able to provide grant aid under European rules on any other such basis. It was also felt that all options should be looked at for a future use of the building in order to give the owner a fully informed and considered approach which might be more beneficial to both the owner and monument itself. It is on this basis which we have offered our current grant.
We have discussed with the owner over a number of years the management of vegetation on the monument. Addressing how to undertake this aspect of managing the monument will form part of the current grant application.
Trevor Mitchell
Yorkshire and the Humber Planning Director
English Heritage
For the latest on the campaign to save Paull Holme Tower visit HU12 Online at:
There is a Christmas appeal for HELP from the owner of Paull Holme Tower published today on HU12 Online. See Paull Holme Tower – Urgent appeal for help
What brilliant news! Let’s hope the future is now more secure for this fantastic historic building. So, people power does work then!
Yes, hopefully something good is going to happen – if the repairs can happen quick enough!
But thanks to you Janet for reminding us all about Heritage Open Days in the first place via Facebook. This prompted the article on the Blog English Heritage Open Days: http://hedonblog.wordpress.com/2011/09/02/english-heritage-open-days-8th-11th-september-2011/.
If you had not told us about the events over that weekend, then perhaps dozens of local people (including me) might not have heard about them – and not have visited the Tower and other local sites.