I’m reorganising the content on www.yorkstories.co.uk. It’s needed doing for a while.
It’s generally tedious – I expected that. Wasn’t quite prepared though for the amount of dead-ends I’ve found, where these pages link to other sites.
I’m sure that it used to be considered really bad form to leave … More …
October 2011
While I was in the middle of writing this page – prompted by the case of the beech tree at Irton – that tree was felled. A senseless hacking down of a perfectly healthy … More …
September 2011
Every tree near to every property in the land presents some risk. Mainly, people accept the potential risks trees might cause, and don’t start a lengthy legal process to destroy them.
A huge beech … More …
September 2011
I’m sure many of us have heard this week of a tree in Irton near Scarborough that’s a ‘public nuisance’. A judge apparently said so, so it must be true. This is clearly just the beginning, and we in York should be on our guard. There are … More …
July 2011
[Update: the plans to sell the coach park, referred to on this page, have since been abandoned. Full story here.]
The recent calls to ‘Save Union Terrace Car Park’ ring a little hollow for the people who wanted to save Union Terrace when it was a … More …
2011
This page discusses a controversial plan put forward in December 2010 to site an observation wheel behind York Art Gallery, to the north of the Museum Gardens. This was later withdrawn. A more recent application to site the wheel in York, in the gardens of the Royal York … More …
3 February 2009
Continuing my city centre winter wander, I went on my way from busy Hungate, up through Aldwark, where the back of Hilary House – even uglier than the front – stood as a reminder of what past developers have been able to get away with … More …
