Lowfields campaigners attending Local Plan meeting at Acomb Library tomorrow (Thursday)

Residents, dismayed by the York Council’s plan to build on the sports field at the old Lowfields school site, are planning to register their objections at a Local Plan meeting tomorrow (Thursday).

The meeting is described as a “drop in” and takes place at the Acomb Explore Library. The Library is open between 9:00am – 9.30pm

The Local Plan has been changed to allocate 13 acres of land at the site for the development of up to 137 homes.  Previous plans had restricted any development to the  built footprint of the former school itself (6.5 acres).

In a recent survey residents indicted that they wanted more of the public green space in the area conserved with the retention of a sports pitch and the provision of a nature reserve popular suggestions.

Some residents have already recorded their objections to the Councils plan to overdevelop the Lowfields site.

Go online: www.york.gov.uk/localplan to complete the survey and to find a full copy of the Local Plan Preferred Sites document

York Council views on Lowfields development. Click to view whole reprt

York Council views on Lowfields development. Click to view whole report

Acomb Explore Library popular with residents

Library is brilliant

The library and all the staff are really excellent & informative, very pleasant

Libary results at 15th Aug 2016A door to door survey in the York Road area has found that residents rate the Acomb Explore Library very highly.

35% of respondents  say that they have visited the Library at least once over the last year.

Most have gone to borrow books, but the cafe, children’s area & internet access also attracted a large number of users.

Asked what would prompt residents to visit the library more frequently, respondents said that the opening of a police incident reporting desk and a regular Councillors surgery were both worth considering.

Library staff also attracted a number of complimentary responses (above).

There were 101,000 visits to Acomb Explore Library last year.
Since April 2016 the Library has attracted 36,000 visitors.

The survey was undertaken by the Westfield Ward Councillors team dover the last 6 weeks.