Wes Leseberg and Luke Dowell entertain the crowd at the opening of the Gold Trail Experience in Murrumburrah on September 19
The successful opening of The Gold Trails Experience Museum was preceded by some nervous moments at Council’s September Business meeting last week, when Council agreed to alter conditions regarding parking and footpaths in the Museum’s Development Application (DA). As failure to meet conditions 16 through to 30 of the DA would have resulted in a $3,300 fine per day of operation, time was of the essence.
Due to the reduction of expected coach and bus visitations to the Museum, proprietor Stephen Byrne applied to have conditions 16 through to 30 removed which stipulated that a carpark be built to accommodate both cars and buses visiting the site, and that a footpath on Vernon Street between Albury Street and Albury Lane be built before the Museum opened last Saturday.
Following a presentation by Byrne in the Public Forum, Councillor Manchester moved that the conditions relating to the installation of a car park and a footpath be rewritten to be completed within six months of the commencement of operations. The motion was passed. Harden Shire Council Mayor John Horton stated that the town needed a “wow factor” that would bring tourists into Harden-Murrumburrah. “This is the first wow factor that we have had as a town,” he said
