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May 2007

This photo is of the advertising hoardings around one of this city’s many building sites – the development called The Forum, on Heworth Green. I nearly walked into a lamp-post when I saw it, I … More … →

Autumn 2006

This is the Homestead Park, in Clifton, York. About a hundred years ago, a member of the Rowntree family handed his back garden over to local people. On 16 July 1904, Seebohm Rowntree announced that for a … More … →

2004

Government policy to use "brownfield land" (ie previously developed land, rather than greenfield/greenbelt land), along with the high demand
for housing in York, means that the city is covered with yellow planning
notices like the one … More … →