Knapton and the Local Plan
21 June. The summer solstice. Standing by a field gate, at around 9pm.
Just one field. One bit of one field. Greenfield/green belt land. At Knapton.
I’d been out on my bike up Acomb way and … More …
Thoughts on, views from, the green belt
The Local Plan … concreting over the green belt, erecting hundreds of wind farms as far as the eye can see and putting travellers’ sites in all the remaining bits.
Or something.
I’m still trying to work it out and find my way through the information/misinformation.
More …Beautiful, musical, Rievaulx
I know it’s a bit late in the day to mention it, but if you’re stuck for something to do tomorrow (30 June) and are near enough to it, I wanted to mention Medieval Music and … More …
Appreciating weedy greenness: brownfield style
The Hungate development site, with Stonebow House rising up like some kind of brutalist concrete ship from a sea of greenery. This kind of site may be weedy, mainly made up of the ubiquitous buddleia, but it has its own apparently limitless vigour. It needs no maintenance, no artificial feeding or watering, and is valuable to smaller creatures even if we don’t value it much.
More …Sessions, Huntington Road
King’s Square: moments captured, remembered
As the ‘reinvigoration’ of King’s Square is due to start in a couple of months I’m adding a few more pages recording how it was, how it is.
More …Burnholme Club, a ‘fantasy villa’ facing demolition
Update, April 2014: the demolition of the building is due to begin shortly.
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Burnholme Club/Burnholme WMC, or to give it its posher name, Burnholme Hall. A striking building, which once … More …
Consultation, consultation, consultation
There are several consultations currently running on the City of York Council website, all asking for our views on the future shaping of the city. In fact so many that I think I … More …