York City win at Wembley


York City made a good start today in what could be the most important week in their history.

Winning the FA Trophy by 2 goals to nil against Newport County was the first of 3 hurdles they must overcome.

On Thursday the Planning Committee will decide whether to approve the construction of a new purpose designed community stadium which will house both Football and Rugby clubs. We’ll be analysing the options open to the committee on this web site over the next few days.

Then next weekend the Club will be at Wembley again for the Conference play off final against Luton Town.

On offer then will be a return to the Football League and much needed boost for finances.

Behind the times

Council web site

2 weeks after the Beckfield Lane recycling centre closed, the Council is still advertising its “opening hours” on its web site. (See right).

Similarly the Council seems to have abandoned support for local Residents Associations.

Many of these Associations use their estate improvement monies to provide local rubbish skips for use by residents.

Some are being provided, for example, in the Cornlands area but – without any real prior publicity – today the skips were mostly empty.

Even the Councils web site hasn’t been updated for over a year http://www.york.gov.uk/housing/residents/associations/

Perhaps not surprisingly local Councillor D Williams has become the second “cabinet” member to be sacked from the “neighbourhoods” post within the last year. He was responsible for a series of blunders including the closure of the Beckfield Lane recycling centre and the decision to fell hundreds of lampposts without making adequate provision for their replacement.