Although the Council has cut back on the number of amenity skips it provides, several residents associations continue to run programmes aimed at making it easier for tenants to get rid of unwanted items.
The skips are only in place for a few minutes and residents must ensure that they put any rubbish into the skips and do not leave it on the path or highway.
2 Pottery lane 10:30 11:30 Garage Area
5 Fossway 10:30 11:30
8 St Paulinus Church 10:30 11:30
York achivists have helped actress Una Stubbs discover that her grandmother once lived in the York workhouse – and can help others looking to trace ancestors.
Una Stubbs with Sherlock
The team, skilled in extracting data from some 800 years of documents conserved in the City Archive, helped Una identify that the woman she knew as strong-minded independent Annie Robinson, gave birth to an illegitimate son in the Huntington Road workhouse in 1903. At the time she was using the name Annie Horsfall. after the family that had informally adopted her as she, herself was born illegitimate.
Una uncovered the information during filming for an episode of Who Do You Think You Are? which airs today (24 July) on BBC 1. With the help of the archivists she was able to trace Annie back to her home in The Groves area of York using documents dating back over 150 years. They revealed a hidden family history of hard work, determination and difficulty.
Filming for the show took place at City of York Council’s Archives last November and the discoveries kept a secret until now. The Archives temporarily closed in February this year in preparation for the building phase of the £1.6m Heritage Lottery Funded ‘Gateway to History’ project. The project will see the Archives provided with a new state-of-the-art home at the York Explore Library Learning Centre, and give more people access to the city’s history than ever before.
People inspired by the programme or interested in genealogy can drop into York Explore seven days a week to talk to staff about where to get started with their own family history.
Bookings are also being taken for two free sessions in September which introduce beginners to tracing their family history using the internet. Contact archives@york.gov.uk for details.
Further research suggests that Yorkshire Housings plans, to shoehorn 56 new homes onto the site of the former Our Lady’s school, could involve densities of 82 dwelling per hectare (dph)
Our Lady’s school site
This far exceeds the guidelines set out in the Council draft Local Plan.
Even City centre locations – where blocks of flats increase densities – rarely exceed 80
The Local Plan recommendations on housing densities are:
• City Centre and City Centre Extension Zone: 80-100 dwellings per hectare
• York urban area: 50 dwellings per hectare This includes site like Our Lady’s
• Major Expansion Areas and New Settlements: 50 Dwellings per hectare
• Suburban area (incl. Haxby & Wigginton): 40 dwellings per hectare
• Rural and Villages: 30 dwellings per hectare
The published draft local plan envisaged 29 dwellings on the site.
The latest drawing also suggest that the playing fields will be built on while the nature reserve, established by the school, is also threatened.
We know that Council officials have been consulted on these controversial proposals.
It remains to be seen why they have been allowed to progress to the public consultation stage.
Leaflets advertising an exhibition of the proposals are being circulated. It will take place between 3pm – 6pm on Tuesday the 30th July, 2013 at: Acorn ARL Sports and Social Club on Thanet Road.
The Council has revealed how much each school in the City has spent on supply teachers .
Supply teachers are brought in to cover staff vacancies and sickness. In some cases the school sources the supply teacher themselves whilst others use agencies.
In total several million pounds is spent on employing supply teachers in York each year
Highest spending secondary school was Huntington at over £160,000.
In the primary sector Poppleton Road paid out £73,000
Locally York High spent £26,000
Westfield Primary school spent just over £70,000 while Hob Moor spent around £29,000.
A full list can be found by clicking here
Meanwhile York’s Liberal Democrats have welcomed an £880,200 increase in funding to York Primary Schools from the Pupil Premium in 2014/15.
This increase represents a £400 rise for every qualifying child and is the largest ever increase in the Pupil Premium for primary schools.
The Pupil Premium is a major Lib Dem priority being delivered by the Coalition Government.
It ensures that extra money is targeted at schools depending on the number of pupils who have been registered for Free School Meals at any point in the last six years.
Schools also receive funding for children who have been looked after continuously for more than 6 months, and children of Armed Forces personnel.
