Another day, another missed deadline

Continuing road works, lane closures and car park construction at Poppleton Bar 1st August 2014

Continuing road works, lane closures and car park construction at Poppleton Bar 1st August 2014

Poppleton – Road works continue

Despite absolute guarantees given at the last Council meeting -that the A59/A1237 road works and Park and Ride construction would be finished by the end of July – work is still in full swing today.

There are lane restrictions, big tail backs on the A59 and temporary traffic signals.

Footpaths have still to be completed and there is no sign of the permanent traffic lights which were due to be installed at the Park and Ride site junction.

The Park and Ride site itself is also far from finished.

The Council can’t blame poor weather for a project which is now over 4 months behind its scheduled (final) completion date.

York “Grand Departy” budget was £228,000.

A response to a Freedom of Information request has revealed that the budgeted costs of putting on the Grand Departy concert at the Huntington Stadium on July 4th was £228,000.

Sparse crowd for Grand Departy

Sparse crowd for Grand Departy

The Council have so far refused to say how much the concert actually cost or what income was received.

Further FOI requests have been submitted but it seems that the Council – which must know by now how much the event cost – are going to hold out until the end of September before providing details.

The Concert was advertised as having a capacity of 10,000 but only a thousand or so turned up with many of the £25 tickets having to be heavily discounted.

It looks like the Council will say all decisions were taken on the delegated authority of one of its Directors although the FOI response does confirm that Cabinet members were fully informed  about the events progress at each stage.

Saturday skip programme

 

2nd August 2014 8:30am Westfield Place

8:30am Dringfield Close

10:30am Ganton Place

12:30pm Jute Road
9th August 2014 8:30am Alcuin Ave

10:30am Tang Hall Lane

12:30pm Fifth Ave
16th August 2014 8:30am Sanderson House Bramham Road

12:30am Bramham Road/Grange Lane junction
30th August 2014 8:30am Bouthwaite Drive

12:30pm Burnsall Drive
6th Sept 2014 8:30am Sanderson House Bramham Road

8:30am Bramham Road/Grange Lane junction

8:30am Don Avenue

8:30am Kingsway West

10:30am North Lane

10:30am Stuart Road
13th Sept 2014 12:30pm Corlett Court

12:30 Windsor Garth
20th Sept 2014 10:30am Thoresby Road
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  • Please remember to take your waste to the site only on the dates advertised
  • If the skip is full or not on the site, please do not leave your waste. This is classed as fly tipping and is illegal
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