Draft Avenues & Pearson Park Conservation Area Character Appraisals This page has been left blank intentionally Character Appraisal 1: The Avenues INSERT Revised and updated Avenues character appraisal forthcoming. Current adopted character appraisal can be viewed at http://www.hullcc.gov.uk/portal/page?_pageid=221,130768&_dad=portal&_schema=P ORTAL This page has been left blank intentionally Character Appraisal 2: Pearson Park Funded by the Community Initiative Fund, Hull City Council Hull City Council gratefully acknowledges the voluntary contribution of Paul Dodsworth and Sally Walker of The Avenues and Pearson Park Residents’ Association for taking on the responsibility, at the request of the Council, to produce for their approval a draft Conservation Area Character Appraisal for Pearson Park: securing funding and a writer with expertise, and assisting with research on architectural detail. Published 2014 Published by Hull City Council, Kingston upon Hull, UK This work, including images and text, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. 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