Council to spend £200,000 hosting 5 women’s rugby matches

It looks like ti will cost taxpayers around £200,000 if York hosts any international Rugby League matches during the world cup in 2021.

It has emerged that the new Community Stadium would be “too small” to host any men’s matches. Instead the City hopes to attract 4 playoff and one semi final from the women’s competition which will be running at the same time.

The Council says that the publicity attracted by the event would be valuable for the City’s tourist industry.

NB. The Council spent nearly £180,000 on a thinly attended  “Grand Departy” concert during the Tour de France in 2014 .

Oakhaven delays – Council admits it will be Autumn 2020 before new home is completed.

Oakhaven

We reported last week that plans to provide a new elderly persons home on the Oakhaven site in Acomb (Holgate) had run into severe difficulties.

Now a Council report has revealed that the replacement facility will not open until the autumn of 2020.

That would be nearly three years after the original target date. The report offers no explanation for the delay.

Other schemes like the upgrade to Lincoln court have overtaken the Oakhaven project.

Elderly residents were decanted out of the building in 2016.

So far no planning application for the Oakhaven site has been submitted. One is not now expected until the summer.

In 2015 we said that the Council’s poor project management record could result in delays to the project.

However, no one forecast that they would be this bad.

What’s on in York: Nordic Walking

Nov _23Nordic

Rowntree Park Reading Cafe :

Fri 23 & 30 Nov and 7 &14 Dec :

10.00am – 11.00am :

£30

We hold 4-week ‘Learn to Nordic Walk’ courses throughout the year.  Nordic Walking uses special poles to enhance walking style, with an upper body technique similar to that of cross-country skiing

Courses will be held from 10.00am to 11.00am on the following dates:

23, 30 November and 7, 14 December 2018

11, 18, 25 January and 1 February 2019

15, 22, 29 March and 5 April 2019

The group meets at the Rowntree Park Reading Café.

The cost of the course is £30 including pole hire. At the end you’ll be issued with a Nordic Walking UK Freedom Card, which means you can attend affiliated walking groups anywhere in the UK.

18 years and upwards,

For further information or to book a place, contact Paul Ramskill on telephone: (01904) 553372 or email paul.ramskill@york.gov.uk.