AFTER years of discussion and debate, work is finally beginning on the transformation of York Central – the huge, 178-acre brownfield site behind York Railway Station. True, all that is happening so far is some work to improve the Millennium Green on Leeman Road. But that is, actually, a part of the York Central scheme: in 2018, the Millennium Green Trust agreed to allow some land at the Green to be used during construction work on the huge site. So what has been happening this week really is the first step towards a huge multi-million redevelopment process that will take years, and will ultimately see hundreds of new homes, as well as offices, and new streets, shops and public spaces.
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A computer generated image of what the approach to the revamped front of the railway station will look like Can someone from the council explain why we have all these different organisations in the city, most composed of York citizens with wide experience, who at the end of the day are just dismissed without a second thought? I wondered this yet again when I read the full page spread about the railway station revamp, and of course the demolition of Queen Street Bridge (Station revamp set got go ahead, January 1). The impressions of what it will look like seem to me to be from a different city than the one I happen to live in. Would it not have been more sense to access along the back of the council offices and turn under the bar walls, instead of removing the bridge and putting more traffic on to one road?
LEEMAN ROAD, YORK This order prohibits vehicles from proceeding in that length of Leeman Road, York between its junctions with Station Rise and Station Avenue (closed road) during the period when delivery vehicles are delivering/removing large machinery to nearby development site, that period commencing at 9pm on February 1, 2021 and ending at 6am on the May 30 2022 or at a time when the works have been completed, whichever is the earlier. This is to ensure that the works can be carried out safely. It is envisaged that the restriction will only be put into effect during an overnight period during the works period.