. ANOTHER consultation over Castle car park/Gateway. Just how much and how many times can the attempt be made to pull the wool over the public s eyes? There must be enough opinions on sticky post it notes to paper all the walls in the council offices. The cigarette packet sketches do highlight what to expect. After NRM wanting to rule over York Central now we have the YMT wanting a highway from Castlegate straight through this site to the museum entrance, taking over the green eye of York for their own use. You can also read how they intend to extend into the old car park and remove the area marked as a garden/play area.
I THINK the development of the huge teardrop site behind York Railway Station (otherwise known as York Central) is a great opportunity to regenerate the centre of York, which we all can see still has many empty shops. Some of the area could maybe be used for a new site for the York Wheel and the Shakespeare s Rose Theatre, these facilities having to be put up and then taken down. The site, though not as big as the Olympic Park in London, was also previously industrial areas and instead of the Olympic Stadium, York has the National Railway Museum. There are many empty buildings and hopefully these will also be given a new lease of life.