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Library lawn to mini-golf course?

Grassed area with benches, Roman wall in background

Looking at a controversial planning application to install a mini-golf course, for 7 years, near the Multangular Tower, on library lawn.

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Tagged   libraries

Goodbye Bootham Crescent

Red painted turnstile gates in grey block wall

A brief personal goodbye to Bootham Crescent, former home of York City FC, as demolition begins.

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Progress on Duncombe Barracks site

Grass, paths, fencing and buildings, signs of vegetation clearance

The Duncombe Barracks housing development: one of the city’s most significant sites. Site clearance work has begun. Photos and notes from a recent visit.

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Spring equinox wanderings, Bootham Stray

Open gate, grass, trees and daffodils beyond

In search of springtime green, in the open land beyond the factory. Bootham Stray wander, and gathering nettle-tops, on the spring equinox.

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Review of the year, 2021

Sunset, with floodlights and church spire on horizon

Year in review: notes and thoughts on planning decisions and other local matters of interest I wasn’t able to cover at the time.

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From Cocoa Works to Cocoa West

Illustration, aerial view, of large complex of factory buildings

Along the cycle track by the old Rowntree factory, remembering Rowntree Halt, and looking at ‘Cocoa West’, then and now.

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Tagged   factories, Rowntree

Cocoa Works progress

Brick and stone factory building with windows removed, seen through trees

Checking on the progress of the Cocoa Works development, converting the former Rowntree factory building into residential accommodation.

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The festive sheds and barriers are back

Barriers by All Saints church, 16 Nov 2021

York’s Christmas market, with festive sheds filling Parliament Street, and expensive anti-terrorism barriers blocking access. It’s all very 2019 . . .

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Tagged   overtourism, Parliament St
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