According to media reports Labour are dithering on the Councils commitment to install double glazing in those Council homes that do not already have it.
It is fortunate that the former Liberal Democrat council had already let the contract for this year’s housing modernisation programme otherwise that could now be in jeopardy. It means that the work already underway on the Chapelfields area will be completed.
However, those living in single glazed flats in the ward, including those in the Thoresby Road area, face an anxious wait.
Council tenants will be rightly angry if Labour, who happily saw £6 million a year siphoned from the York Housing Revenue Account to subsidise tenants in other parts of the country, now failed to deliver on one of their promises. In the Heworth Ward they even collected a petition in support of providing double glazing.

The good weather, and half term holidays, mean that the new playground on Grange Lane is being well used.
Completed a couple of weeks ago the range of equipment exceeds even that available at its sister site on Foxwood Lane.
Next stage in the improvement of facilities should be the modernisation of equipment aimed at younger children. The Ward Committee had plans to provide at least one new piece of equipment each year. A start was made a few months ago at both Acomb Green and Foxwood Lane. Lets hope that programme continues.