The crossing will help provide a safer environment for people living at and visiting the new housing development, The Meadows.
The work is expected to take two weeks to complete, with work taking place between 9.30am and 3.30pm. To maintain safety for road users and pedestrians a controlled system of traffic management using Stop/Go boards will be in operation during working hours.
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York slum circa 1933
A consultation is being shared by City of York Council with residents, partners in health, housing, and those involved in the private rented market, regarding a draft Private Sector Housing Strategy.
Using data from research carried out by the Building Research Establishment (BRE) and commissioned by the council, the strategy aims to make homes in York safer and healthier places.
The strategy itself outlines plans to work closely with partners and residents to tackle poverty and disadvantage and to ensure that homes are healthier for their occupants.
These improvements to health and wellbeing aim to protect the vulnerable and dovetail with a vision for York to be a leading sustainable city with ongoing economic prosperity. Under the new One Planet York programme the city will strive for vibrancy and diversity of the local economy, the health and social wellbeing of residents and the quality of the built and natural environment.
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A damming independent report into the closure of Bootham Park hospital, and the subsequent confusion for patients, has been published.
The report author John Ransford concludes,
“If all organisations had worked together in partnership to deliver a plan based on the needs of patients and local people, more suitable solutions would still have been difficult, but surely not impossible to achieve”.
The report heavily criticises the Vale of York Clinical Commissioning Group together with the former service provider the Leeds and York Partnership Foundation Trust.
The underlying criticism is of lack of leadership and “joined up” working across the many disparate organisations which are now responsible for health care in the City.
The issue will be considered by a Council committee when it meets on 25th April.
Another report, by NHS England lists 18 areas where local health managers and contractors failed patients.
“Healthwatch” the patients watchdog also says that “closure of Bootham Park Hospital has been immensely stressful for many people involved and that the impact will continue to be felt for the months to come”.
NB. Following a Care Quality Commission inspection Bootham Park Hospital was closed for “safety” reasons on 1st October 2015. Some outpatient facilities are being re-established there but it is likely to be 2019 before a new facility is opened to replace the 240-year-old former lunatic asylum
