Friday noticeboard: planning applications
Recent planning applications: Clementhorpe Maltings and various tree works in Bootham, Peasholme Green and Acomb.
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Rawcliffe Meadows: past, present, future
Rawcliffe Meadows is a special place, and deserves more recognition and support. Mick Phythian and Martin Hammond of the Friends of Rawcliffe Meadows explain the importance of the site, the work involved in maintaining it, and the wider changes affecting local green places in recent years.
More …Las Vegas on Gillygate?
One place I’ve been meaning to mention is this pub on Gillygate, now Monroes, formerly (as pictured) the Pink Pony, formerly … loads of other names.
More …Friday noticeboard: planning matters
Planning applications for the British Sugar site (outline application), Civil Service club site, and Pottery Lane. Notes and links.
More …Sustaining this hyperlocal content in 2015
The future of local media /2: hyperlocal?
Observations on the rich landscape of hyperlocal content, compared with a decade ago, and wondering how we sustain and support it.
More …The future of local media … /1
Walmgate: all change. Photos from June and December 2014 showing the Press offices old and new. Wondering what the future holds in store for the traditional local press.
More …Tweet tweet: wild things, York
As I’ve mentioned before, Twitter is full of loveliness, and interesting things, and recently I’ve spotted a few tweets sharing sightings of the other creatures inhabiting the city and its green areas.
Just beyond Clifton Bridge, between Shipton Road and the river, Rawcliffe Meadows supports tiny tansy beetles and also … More …