By Chloe Laversuch
Northminster Properties managing director, George Burgess, left, with development surveyor Alastair Gill at Northminster Business Park, where the new parcels centre will be built, subject to planning A MAJOR delivery company has committed to only using electric vehicles to drop off parcels within York city walls. DPD wants to expand its electric van fleet and hopes to extend electric vehicle deliveries across the region, from Harrogate to Selby to Scarborough, in the coming years. The company has secured planning permission to build a new hub on Green Belt land near Northminster Business Park in Upper Poppleton. Kathryn Jukes, speaking for DPD, said: “Remaining at the current site at Clifton Moor is no longer an option. It simply does not have the space to accommodate DPD’s plans to expand their fleet of electric vehicles.
YORK students are likely to be living in temporary accommodation for the next five years under a plan before the city council. Askham Bryan College has applied to the City of York planning department to extend permission for its temporary accommodation blocks for another five years because it does not have the funds to build permanent ones. Kathryn Jukes, on behalf of the college, said the planning application was submitted to seek the retention of the temporary units for a further five years. She wrote: “At the time the original permission was sought, the college had experienced a surge in student numbers but did not have the accommodation on campus to cater for demand.