Comments on: 2 Rougier St: plans to convert to residential http://yorkstories.co.uk/2-rougier-st-plans-convert-residential/ A resident's record of York and its changes Wed, 05 Mar 2025 17:45:53 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.38 By: Nora http://yorkstories.co.uk/2-rougier-st-plans-convert-residential/#comment-650421 Thu, 14 Jan 2016 07:04:22 +0000 http://yorkstories.co.uk/?p=10338#comment-650421 I understand that the council have told some of the companies that they want them off the teardrop by 2017 and that they will put in compulsory purchase orders to get things moving.

]]> By: Roy http://yorkstories.co.uk/2-rougier-st-plans-convert-residential/#comment-650388 Wed, 13 Jan 2016 07:05:00 +0000 http://yorkstories.co.uk/?p=10338#comment-650388 Yet the council are hell bent on shutting down railway maintenance companies on the teardrop because they say York is lacking in city centre office space, yet all you see on walkabouts in the city centre (and on many other sites in York) are empty office blocks!

Is it just part of an ongoing plan to eradicate York of blue collar engineering jobs? Do they just want low paid tourism/shop jobs and white collar office/call centre workers?

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