New games area – Council delay response

We asked 4 weeks ago what had happened to the promised replacement for the children’s games area on Kingsway West.

The area is currently being used as a building compound. The contractor was beginning tt remove storage containers from the area today although work on Lincoln Court and the new centre for the disabled won’t be completed for a few weeks at least (it is running behind schedule with COVID partly to blame according to the Council).

A response to a Freedom of Information request was due today but the Council now says that they can’t reply before 3rd Ocotober.

The enquiry resulted from a promise made on 18th March 2019 when the Council’s Executive agreed to provide a replacement for the Kingsway West Multi User Games Area (MUGA) which has been taken out of use as part of the project to extend Lincoln Court.

The minute read;
“a ii) To note that in approving Option 1 a commitment is made for alternative recreational facilities following community consultation including Sport England within Westfield Ward in mitigation for the loss of the Multi Use Games Area. The alternative facilities provided are to be agreed by Executive and will be subject to a further report and budget approval.”

18 months later and there has been no further word from the Council on how the replacement plan is going.

The contractor has started to remove storage containers from the building compound. Most external work on the new and refurbished buildings has been completed. The wire fence around the games area has been realigned.

Coronavirus updates 23rd September 2020;

Deaths and test results

There have been no additional hospital deaths announced today in York. Fatalities at other Yorkshire hospitals are increasing.

There have been an additional FOURTEEN positive test results announced today bringing the cumulative total to 1161. (The January case has now been added back into the total)

If there is any cause for optimism, it may be that there are signs that the rate of increase may now be slowing. But it is too soon to say, with any confidence, that the rate will decline.

We are still averaging over 10 additional cases each day.

The worst hit neighbourhoods, over the last 7 days, were Huntington and Holgate East. A copy of a map showing the neighbourhood boundaries can be seen by clicking here