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- Ripon Cathedral announces next steps in £8 million annexe consultation
- Campaigner expresses 'annexation' fears for Ripon's Minster Gardens
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This aerial cgi shows the proposed annexe between the Courthouse Museum to the right and the Old Deanery restaurant. Image Ripon Cathedral Renewed.
The letter said the civic society encouraged good new building and the cathedral had been a recipient of its awards but it added:
To safeguard the public open space that currently belongs to North Yorkshire Council, the society has published the leaflet Ripon's Kirkgate Park An Appreciation, which sets out the historical significance of the parkland area, whose name over two centuries has also included Courthouse Gardens, Museum Gardens and latterly Minster Gardens.
The veteran beech (foreground) is one of 11 mature trees that would be felled.
The signatories of the letter to Gerard Walsh all took part in the protest at Minster Gardens on November 25.
Local resident and environmental journalist Brian McHugh, who has sought the precise dimensions of the annexe and details about the compensatory planting of 300 trees in return for the 11 that face being felled on Minster Gardens, claimed the drop-in events "were farcical and no more than a cosmetic 'tick box' exercise". He added:
'End this sham of a consultation'
The Stray Ferret asked the Ripon Cathedral Renewed Comms team to respond to the claims made but has not received a response.
Main image:: Some of the trees under threat in Minster Gardens
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