4 April 2008: Peasholme Centre site … and shop doorways, 2016
From the archives … a photo from 4 April 2008. With thoughts on April 2016, and the number of people sleeping in doorways in York city centre.
More …From the archives … a photo from 4 April 2008. With thoughts on April 2016, and the number of people sleeping in doorways in York city centre.
More …The council is asking for our views on the future of the Burton Stone Community Centre. I’m appreciating the 30s/40s curvy corners, and wondering if the existing building can be retained.
More …Notes and queries on the garages on Shaw’s Terrace, off Blossom Street, after a reader asks what happened to the houses there.
More …Alliance House, former York carriageworks site. Proposed demolition plan submitted at the same time as the York Central ‘consultation’.
More …York Central consultation: in which an important part of York’s heritage is invisible. They’ve already decided to drive a road through it.
More …In which I humbly suggest that Queen Street should be left as it is, particularly if proposed changes in the York Central plans adversely affect the Railway Institute buildings, and that the York Central development should make better use of what’s already there.
More …Looking at the site of the former nurses’ accommodation in Bootham Park and wondering why it can’t be reused for mental health facilities.
More …Noticing rusty railings, and forbidding signs, in the first attempt at an adequate exploration of a complicated place.
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