All scheduled household waste and garden waste collections have been made.
We were unable to collect recycling from areas of Acomb and Dringhouses due to operating under COVID-19 restrictions. We’ll return for these collections by Thursday 18 June. Please present your containers for collection by 7.00am.
We were able to collect all outstanding household and garden waste from Tuesday 16 June.
City of York Council will be carrying out roadworks on key routes in June, The following works are being undertaken:
The Council has announced that there will be free parking for two hours at some car parks which are located outside the “City Walls”.
Exclusions are Piccadilly, Marygate, Castle Car Park, Esplanade, Bishopthorpe Road Car Parks, Moor Lane, East Parade and Rowntree Park.
Of these, Marygate and Esplanade are both outside the Walls and are very popular with shoppers.
Castle & Piccadilly are also popular shopper destinations and are the best used car parks in the City.
The Council says, “The offer is valid in council run car parks outside the city walls including: Nunnery Lane, Union Terrace, Monk Bar, St George’s Field, Foss Bank, Bootham Row”.
Of these, only Nunnery Lane is located on the west of the river Ouse.
York Council says it “will offer free parking in July and August”
. The free parking incentive includes two free hours parking starting from Saturday 4 July, reducing to one free hour of parking throughout August.
The free parking is available only to users of the Ringo Parking App if they park after 10:00am (seven days a week).
The Ringo App is a contactless payment which helps facilitate social distancing and can be download from any app store.
A report detailing the proposals will be presented to a Council Executive meeting which is being held on Thursday June 25.
On the third day of trading shopping centres around the City were reporting only steady shopper numbers.
There were spaces available in all car parks.
The unspectacular start may result in calls for the Council, and its agent Make it York, to step up publicity, street entertainment and special deals on car parking.
Meanwhile support for the campaign to have the Museums Gardens reopened is gaining momentum.
Paul Fawkesley, Founder of Treasure Hunt York, has emailed his support for the reopening
Deaths and test results
There has been one further death at the York Trust hospitals – the first for 5 days.
There have been no further positive lab rest results (15th June). The cumulative figure has remained at 462 since 2nd June.
Its taken a long time, but the cycle path on Tadcaster Road (A1036) has finally been cleared of obstructions. A one metre margin has been cut and the worst of the overgrowing branches have been trimmed.
The Council still needs to apply some weed killer where grass is breaking through tde surface of the path.
There really needs to be an inspection regime put in place to avoid problems in the future on this, and other, dedicated paths.
It looks like the traditional figure signposts on the City centre will start to disappear shortly.
The project to replace them with a “modern” equivalent could cost taxpayers £350,000 with a similar matching contribution coming from the York Bid.
Controversial in many ways, the timing of the expenditure looks even more suspect against the background of a City centre now desperately trying to attract local shoppers.
The future off the redundant finger signposts has been highlighted by a campaigning Councillor. He wants to repurpose the posts for use in sub-urban York and in the surrounding villages.
This seems like a sound idea.
A new cast iron post can cost as much as £4,300 and repurposing existing signs would not only be cheaper but would also meet the Council’s environmental objectives.
Arguably the finger signs are also less visually intrusive designed as they were to complement Conservation Areas.
So what will happen to the recovered posts?
No one seems to know.
There are many locations – not least the routes of the public rights of way made even more popular for exercise during lock-down – which would benefit from better way marking.
Consigning the iron posts to the scrap heap would add insensitivity to the poor judgement of the original decision.
