MONICA NELSON is right that York Central can provide the bus station this city has needed for many years (Letters, February 1).
But for this to happen the development team at City of York Council need to start behaving like proper town planners.
The local authority, when dealing with major strategic sites of this sort, is supposed to “plan” for the greater good of the whole city and not act as quasi-agents for the landowners.
York residents are funding feasibility studies that should be carried out and paid for by the freeholders.
I would much rather see council taxpayers’ money being used to purchase an interest in the land sufficient to ensure a transport interchange is an integral part of any scheme.
Instead of this we see an obsession with massive speculative office blocks up to ten storeys high. Has the gamekeeper turned poacher?
Matthew Laverack, Lord Mayors Walk, York
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