A report on the number of additional homes provided in the City last year has been published. There has been no public consideration of the figures
There were 560 net completions in 2019/20
In addition, the report reveals that there were a total of 3,466 housing planning consents given. This is by far the largest single year number of permissions recorded in the last 10 years. However the total depends heavily on the approval of 2500 homes at the York central site
It is estimated that around 550 additional homes are required each year to meet internally generated demand (Excess of births over deaths in the City plus a continuing drift towards smaller households).
Higher Local Plan figures rest on attracting more inward migrants to the City which in turn is driven by the job numbers generated by high economic growth forecasts.
These forecasts were pre COVID and are unlikely to become a reality in the near future.
Nevertheless, the City now does have sufficient planning permission identified to take the pressure off development greenfield land.
NB. There will always be around 100 “windfall” approvals for small housing sites each year which need to be added to the completion numbers.
The Council claims to have caught up with the backlog of recycling collections from earlier in the week. Still issues in Huntington, Clifton, and Strensall
Thursday 12 June
All sheduled household waste has been collected as ususal.
We were unable to collect recycling from some areas in Huntington and Clifton due to operating under COVID-19 restrictions.
This recycling will be collected on Friday 12 June. Please present your containers for collection by 7.00am.
We’ve collected outstanding recycling from Tuesday 9 and Wednesday 10 June.
We were unable to collect garden waste from Strensall and North Moor estate (Huntington) due to the capacity issues.
This garden waste will be collected on the evening of Thursday 11 June. Please present your containers for collection by 7.00am.
Outstanding garden collections from Wednesday 10 June have been completed.
After being closed for a time yesterday, St Helens Road has reopened. White lining work there has been completed and is also well advanced on Tadcaster Road.
Both carriageways have been resurfaced.
The contract is expected to be completed tomorrow on schedule although some bad weather is forecast (heavy rain).
The following is the daily update on missed waste collections taken from the York Council’s web site.
We are aware, though, that several residents have said that some missed collections are not being recorded on the Council site. The most recent claims relate to missed recycling collections in Foxwood Hill.
If waste is left in your street then please report it by clicking here
If your waste hasn’t been collected within 48 hours of its scheduled time, then please let us have a photo – showing the situation on your street – so we can share it on social media and with responsible managers.
Wednesday 10 June
All scheduled household waste collections have been made.
We were unable to collect recycling from properties in the following areas due to operating under COVID-19 restrictions:
Derwenthorpe
Earswick
Heworth (Stockton Lane)
Strensall
Tang Hall (Burnholme)
We’ll return for these collections by Thursday 11 June. Please leave your containers out and we’ll get to you as soon as we can.
We were able to recollect outstanding recycling waste from Heworth and Bisphopthorpe. Missed recycling collections from Acomb will be collected on Thursday 11 June.
We were unable to collect garden waste from a number of streets in the following areas due to capacity issues:
Acomb (Wetherby Road area)
Heworth (Stockton Lane)
We’ll attempt to collect missed garden waste by Thursday 11 June, but may not be able to revisit until later in the week. Please leave your green bin out and we’ll get to you as soon as we can.
We were able to collect all outstanding garden waste from Tuesday 9 June.
A woman has been arrested in connection with an attack on a man and his dog on Hob Moor in York yesterday.
North Yorkshire Police officers arrested the 51-year-old woman at an address in York at 2.25pm this afternoon.
She was arrested on suspicion of racially-aggravated assault and causing unnecessary suffering to an animal, in connection with the incident on the evening of Tuesday 9 June 2020.
She was further arrested on suspicion of possession of an offensive weapon and possession of class B drugs.
She remains in custody at this time, while police enquiries continue.
Video footage of the incident had been circulated on social media. A number of members of the public contacted North Yorkshire Police with information about the incident.
There are signs of life in some organisations in the City as they begin to address the harsh post COVID realities.
The Council has issued business recovery kits which may aid social distancing particularity in shops.
The move comes on the day when the Centre for City’s releases details of how the health crisis has impacted on visitor numbers to the City centre. Not surprisingly the profile has changed radically with those travelling from the suburbs (both as shoppers and workers) now in the majority.
This will come as no surprise as foreign tourist numbers are, and are likely to remain, negligible. The next three months will be crucial for many retail and tourist businesses in the City.
The City is middle ranking so far in how well is is recovering its high street “footfall” compared to other Cities. It has a recovery index of 24 compared to the least affected (Aldershot with a score of 57 and the worst Cardiff with 11).
But it is early days and a more general return to work next Monday will tell us more.
So what needs to be done?
Clearly York’s visitor economy is going to depend, at least in the short term, on people travelling to the City from within Yorkshire. They will need to feel safe if they are to be persuaded to come.
It is vitally important therefore that such large spaces as exist in the City centre are fully utilised.
We understated that there are events planned for Parliament Street but it is less clear what use it will be made of assets like the Museum Gardens, Deans Park and the Nave of the Minster. Indeed, imaginative programming at the Minster – which could safely accommodate over a thousand people during periods of poor weather – may be vitally important in any marketing strategy.
All could potentially accommodate Arts events while maintaining social distancing rules.
Duncombe Place
The Council has already listed streets which will be pedestrianised.
Incredibly it failed to include Deangate, one of the widest streets in the City and which could – together with the Minster and Deans Park- provide an ideal events space. Events held there would complement those planned for the other side of the City to the benefit traders and attractions in the Stonegate neighbourhood.
In the longer term better use will need to be made of the river banks and the City Walls but, for a few weeks at least, the City will need to concentrate on promoting itself as a vibrant, safe and welcoming destination.
It is time now for Make it York, the Council , the theatres, museums, libraries and other organisations to publish their short and medium term regeneration proposals?
No more deaths have been recorded at the York hospital. This means that there has only been one coronavirus related hospital death in the last 10 days.
The total number of positive lab tests recorded in the City remains at 462
The council has published details of the footpaths, cycle routes and carriageways that it plans to resurface in July, August and September.
There is more than a little irony in some of the choices. Bishopthorpe Road – part of which is currently closed to traffic – will be resurfaced. Tadcaster Road is mentioned although this work has effectively been completed.
£408,000 is to be spent on the National Cycle Route 65. The local part of this route links Selby via York to north of Skelton. The section from Naburn to Riccall has been criticised as being virtually impassable for ordinary road bikes because fo tree root damage. It is understood, however, that this is not the section that will be reconstructed. (NB. A section of Terry Avenue is likely to be badly affected by flood prevention works over the next 2 years)
The closure of Tudor Road for 2/3 weeks means that the number 4 bus service will be further diverted (it recently was rerouted via Ridgeway) .
We understand that the diversion will be
Sat 13th – Sun 28th Jun
Tudor Rd closed at Gale Lane end during sewer connection works for new housing development.
Suggested diversion for service 4 Gale Lane, Front Street, Green Lane both ways then to Acomb Green terminus. Inbound Ridgeway, Askham Lane, right into Gale Lane then right into Cornlands Road
