I AM delighted that plans are again progressing for the city stadium (The Press, August 27).

It seems only yesterday that I was playing my part in ensuring that the plans would indeed provide a community stadium and not simply a home for the football club.

In fact, six long years have passed. We must hope that this time plans are approved and work finally begins.

Can I repeat a plea I have made many times before and ask that the roof of this community stadium be covered in solar photovoltaics, and that ground-source heating be installed beneath the pitch?

The current administration has done a good job of ensuring solar PV is now installed on many council houses across the city. Now the payback period has dropped significantly, it is surely a no-brainer the stadium should be a community power station, helping to reduce emissions and providing the energy and heating needs of the building.

It is now eight years since the ecoDepot included renewable energy generation on its roof; it is hard to believe that we still have to rehearse the reasons for ensuring that each and every new community building leads by example.

Christian Vassie, Blake Court, Wheldrake, York.