I READ the article regarding the traffic that could be generated when the fracking operation starts in Kirby Misperton with great interest (The Press, September 22).

Evidently, brochures sent to local residents in December 2014 by Third Energy, the applicants, stated that 266 HGV movements would occur within the first eight weeks, but it transpires that the company actually plans that 910 HGV movements will be made within the first eight weeks.

The company applying for the industrial intrusion into the precious landscape of North Yorkshire state that “in the leaflets Third Energy produced, round trips were described as one journey but in the planning application they are counted as two, so the figures are not comparable”.

I say to Third Energy, indeed the figures are not comparable: 266 multiplied by two equates to 532 movements and nowhere near the now estimated movements of traffic of over 910 leading up to possibly 1,510, and near six times as many as first declared so that must entail a heck of a lot of water waste movements and construction vehicles to create a sound barrier.

Howard Perry, St James Place, Dringhouses, York

 

PERHAPS it’s time the so-called governance expert admitted to all she is not so, as her recent letter shows she has no understanding of the standards procedure which is set by government – a basic understanding any so-called expert would know.

Under the old stricter standards regime, that the coalition government watered down, former Cllr Healey would have been sanctioned due to his unsubstantiated claims. Sadly, rules to manage behaviour no longer exist.

As someone who has actually been involved in local government governance, I understand the rules and procedures unlike the so-called expert.

Tracey Simpson Laing, Former chair, governance committee of the Congress of Local & Regional Authorities, Council of Europe, Amberley Street, York

 

THE Press did a super feature on a book York And Its Railways 1839-1950 by Paul Chrystal at £16 (The Press, September 28).

I emailed Amazon on Tuesday afternoon and on Wednesday the book was delivered in person by the author, who lives nearby. Now that’s what I call service.

It’s a cracking book covering many aspects of York history including stations, hotels, York’s industrial railways, Derwent Valley, the carriageworks, National Rail Museum and the York Railway Institute plus much more.

No, I am not on commission with Mr Chrystal, but can recommend it to anyone with a passion for York history, albeit with an underlying rail theme.

William Moore, Lochrin Place, York