Comments on: Knapton and the Local Plan http://yorkstories.co.uk/knapton-and-the-local-plan/ A resident's record of York and its changes Wed, 05 Mar 2025 17:45:53 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.38 By: Keith Myers http://yorkstories.co.uk/knapton-and-the-local-plan/#comment-107 Mon, 08 Jul 2013 22:22:22 +0000 #comment-107 I can also recommend The Red Lion.When I was at Beckfield Lane School we used to run across the fields and down the paddock on Back Lane as part of PE cross country.Horrible days! Lovely report on your visit to Knappo.

]]> By: YorkStories http://yorkstories.co.uk/knapton-and-the-local-plan/#comment-106 Fri, 05 Jul 2013 15:36:44 +0000 #comment-106 I have memories of that back lane, and the horses. I think it was riding stables back then, not sure it is now? I like your description of it.

“I’ve no problem with a traveller site as long as it’s sensitively sited.”
– Me neither. I also found it interesting to read clarification in the report mentioned above regarding the different kinds of sites needed, and the analysis of site suitability etc. There is of course a lot of misunderstanding and prejudice.

Today’s Press reports that the landowner of the Knapton site offered as a potential showpeople’s site has withdrawn it, so somewhere else will need to be found:

http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/10528126.Showpeople_s_site_plans_abandoned_after_land_offer_withdrawn/

]]> By: Martyn http://yorkstories.co.uk/knapton-and-the-local-plan/#comment-105 Wed, 03 Jul 2013 20:46:31 +0000 #comment-105 Living nearby I walk my dog in a little circuit of Knapton several times a week, often I leave it until the sun is starting to go down. Often walking down Ten Thorns Lane on the way home a local fox cuts through the fields, under the hedgerow and then crosses the road. Once it came out of the hedge right by us, my dog froze, the fox froze and for a second or two they stood staring at one another. It is special to me and challenges my last comment about the ordinariness of the borderlands where York meets the green belt. Sometimes it feels ordinary at others it feels quite special. Down the back lane where you see the horses in the paddock it feels like a fragment of something older that has somehow survived. I’ve no problem with a traveller site as long as it’s sensitively sited. It’s remarkable that Knapton has kept its identity as Acomb has expanded all around it. PS: The food at the Red Lion is a bit good.

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