Over the next couple of months, extra cycle parking will have been put in place in Lendal, Goodramgate, King Street, Library Square and Micklegate.
This comes on top new parking recently installed in Piccadilly and North Street.
This will help to create an extra 150 spaces to add over 1000 spaces already availible within the city centre.
A project to support the improvement of standards in York’s private rented accommodation sector has been agreed by City of York Council.
The new YorProperty scheme is voluntary and landlords and/or agents can sign up for accreditation if they agree to meet certain standards which promote safe accommodation. Once accepted, properties of accredited members will be marketed on a branded website, supported by City of York Council.
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City of York Council will carry out reconstruction works on part of Tranby Avenue in Osbaldwick from Monday 5 August.
The works are programmed to take approximately four weeks in total to complete, working Monday to Friday between 8am and 5pm. #
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These tennis sessions are for children aged 4 to 14yrs. Children aged 4 to 9yrs will attend the 1pm to 2pm session and children aged 10 to 14yrs will attend the session taking place at 2pm to 3pm.
All attendees will receive tuition from a highly qualified tennis coach. The tennis coach (Andy) is fun and engaging and on previous camps children have developed their skills while having fun.
Sessions cost £4 per person per class and operate on a pay as you play basis, limited spaces are available – to book your child on to a camp please contact: andycrockett@tennisforallyork.co.uk
The York Council won’t use any of its government “New Homes Bonus” payments, housing reserves or developer planning levies to buy homes on the open market.
In total over £10 million is available to supplement rental stocks.
The disappointing announcement came at the last Council meeting when the Labour Councillor responsible for housing (Tracey Simpson-Laing) claimed that empty properties currently on the market in York “are poorly insulated”.
St Stephens Square £65,000 click for details
Instead the Council intends to spend around £7 million constructing new Council flats at sites like the former Beckfield Lane recycling centre. These properties are likely to cost around £170,000 each including the value of the building plot (which is already owned by the Council).
The decisions comes at a time when a Freedom of Information request has revealed that the housing waiting list – now amalgamated for the whole of North Yorkshire – has over 2800 applications SEEKING ONE BEDROOMED PROPERTIES.
This is more than half the total number on the list, which has now reached 4600. Many of these, though, have been added since the list was “opened up” and includes people from other parts of the country who want to move to York. It also, for the first time, includes many teenagers who had previously had rented accommodation in the private sector, lived with relatives or in shared accommodation .
The only planning application so far made for the new Council houses (on Beckfield Lane) is for 6 two bedroomed and 3 one bedroomed flats. In additional the site will accommodate 6 two bedroomed homes as well as several “for sale” units. Approval of the planning application has been delayed.
Potentially the Council could purchase 70 empty flats on the open market for the £7 million. They would be available immediately to ease the demand for more rented property.
In turn this could free up the same number of larger properties (there are 354 existing Council tenants seeking a move to a smaller property).
A modern two bedroomed terraced property in Birch Copse is advertised for £115,000.
Birch Copse £115,000 click for details
A 2 bedroomed (former) Council flat in St Stephens Road is advertised for £65,000. As a cash buyer the Council is ideally placed to secure properties like this.
NB. The latest Council report on “homelessness” in the City concedes that the number of rough sleepers in the York has increased. The quarter 3 submission to government identified 8, an increase from the previous year of 2.
The number of households in temporary accommodation remains high despite a reduction in homeless acceptances and the opening of Howe Hill for Young People. The target for 2012/13 was 85. The final number in temporary accommodation as of 31/3/12 was 99
DATE: Sun 4 Aug http://www.forallevents.co.uk/
TIME: Commences 9am
VENUE: York Knavesmire
COST: see www.runforall.com
Join in or come to cheer on as thousands of people take to the course to raise funds and awareness for their favourite charities
Free compost giveaway on Sunday for York residents
In partnership with Yorwaste Ltd free compost is being made available again.
Bring your own bag, container and shover (it is not pre-bagged) and help yourself to some free soil improver for your garden or allotment.
When: On the first Sunday of every month from March until October: 4 August, 1 September, 6 October
Time: 9:30am until 2:30pm or while stocks last
Where: Harewood Whin waste site, Tinker Lane, Wetherby Road, Rufforth, York, Yo23 3RR
Residents have a final chance to stop the introduction of a wide area 20 mph speed limit in West York on 12th August.
The Labour plan has been “called in” by the Liberal Democrats and will be discussed by an all party committee which will meet at 5:00pm in the Thornton Room – Ground Floor, West Offices (Room G039)
Residents can register to speak at the meeting. To do so they should email or telephone Jill Pickering Telephone: 01904 552061, E-mail: jill.pickering@york.gov.uk. The deadline for registering is 5.00pm on Friday 9 August 2013
Details of the reasons given for the “call in” can be read by clicking here
A proposal which would see local Libraries taken out of Council control has also been called in. Details can be found by clicking here
The same registration requirements apply to this item
York thieves take camping gear
Detectives are investigating after a camping stove was stolen from a garden shed in York.
Appeal for information as York police investigate tower theft
Detectives in York are appealing for information after a 30ft scaffolding tower was stolen from a house undergoing repairs.
Police investigate suspected charity bin theft
York police are appealing for the owners of clothing believed to have been donated to charity to come forward.
Residents have until Monday (5th August) to make representations on the Boundary Commissions draft proposals for changes to the ward boundaries in York. Click this link http://tinyurl.com/York-Wards-Aug-2013
The Commission have come up with some highly controversial proposals to merge wards making them bigger (and Councillors less accountable).
Liberal Democrats continue to support a network of single member wards with a quarter of the Council retiring each year.