I hope the enterprising people renting canoes do well – you get a very different view from the river – which imo needs recognising as a community asset.

Funnily enough I bumped into a group from Castlegate project near Sainsburys roundabout the other day. Now that is an area which with addition few benches /picnic tables/lighting and some planting and possibly tree pruning which could be more used. And there is some great history there so perhaps an information board with photos of old gasworks – you can still see bridge supports from river. Also something to recognise the thriving communities off Foss like around Layerthorpe which covered on this website so well.

I think if concentrate just on centre of town missing fact that people need to get in there in first place. If we could make the Foss more of a ‘corridor’ – but appreciate will take a lot of imagination and investment to do this. And I would also like to see people linger to enjoy Foss not just use it to get in and out town. If we value things as a community we look after them.