Burnholme Club, demolition approved: thoughts
Demolition of the Burnholme club building has been approved. Thoughts on the imminent destruction of a handsome building.
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A few quotes from/notes on … Local Plan /2
Asking a few questions about the Draft Local Plan, and highlighting some key points and statistics noticed. Wondering why we’ve got so many flats when really the need is for houses. Startling statistic on the increase in younger residents, from the expanding universities. All very interesting.
More …Thoughts, impressions … Local Plan /1
Time to leap back into the present, to the pressing concerns of today.
Hands up who’s read the Local Plan Preferred Options main documents? I’ve been trying to, before the consultation period ends … More …
Ways of seeing … York
A while back I stumbled upon a rather quaint and dated description of the city of York. Not from the far distant past, but from recent years, in the Guardian’s information on the … More …
Knapton and the Local Plan
21 June. The summer solstice. Standing by a field gate, at around 9pm.
Just one field. One bit of one field. Greenfield/green belt land. At Knapton.
I’d been out on my bike up Acomb way and … More …
Thoughts on, views from, the green belt
The Local Plan … concreting over the green belt, erecting hundreds of wind farms as far as the eye can see and putting travellers’ sites in all the remaining bits.
Or something.
I’m still trying to work it out and find my way through the information/misinformation.
More …From the archives, for a fee
[Update, July 2013 — since this page was written, I’ve been given permission to use City of York Council images on this website. Libraries and archives are now working towards more of a Creative Commons approach regarding the use of the images in the city council archives.]
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Found on the internet: then and now
This is a scan of a piece of paper I used to have on my computer desk, about twelve years ago. The quoted words seemed important enough not only to … More …