Residents living in the Lowfields area have taken to Facebook to express their disappointment about the lack of information being provided on the nearby school site development.
They have seen a Council newsletter which tells them what the names will be of the new streets which are currently being constructed. The Council credits/blames pupils at a local school for the choice of Rosemary Road, Moss Bank Court etc.
The newsletter also claims that the first occupants will move in before the end of the year,.
This may be true, but residents main concern is lack of information about the lack of activity on other parts of the site.
The Facebook critics say
“no new information about when building work on the whole site will be concluded. Residents were told that plant would be off the site within 3 years.
It now looks like building work will continue for over 5 years.
We understand that the “Yorspace” communal housing scheme funding appeal topped out at just over £400,000. It remains to be seen whether this will be sufficient to allow the scheme to actually get built.
The self build plots are apparently still “on offer” while there have been no takers from developers wanting to provide a care home (on the large reserved plot on the Green Lane side of the site).
The location reserved for a “police station” is likely to remain empty indefinitely (there will be no police station) while there has been no progress on designing the “new health centre” which was promised for another part of the site.
No progress has been made in providing off site additional car parking spaces on Dijon Avenue.
It is really shameful that the Council should circulate a cheap leaflet like this without even attempting to address the major areas of local concern to local residents”.
WE think that residents have a point. They have been treated very badly by the York Council and deserve more respect and regular updates.
No one should have to live next to a building site for 5 years or more, simply because a local authority failed to get its act together