HOW I agree with Paul Cooper’s letter (The Press, December 1).

Planners are choosing crazy ways to access the York Central site, passing through roads crammed with houses.

It would pour even more traffic from Wilton Rise or the carriageworks entrance onto Holgate Road, which is already a nightmare.

Mr Cooper’s idea is so simple it’s hilarious.

Coming into York along Poppleton Road, turn left at the traffic lights onto Holgate Park Drive, follow the road until you come to the Network Rail fence (old carriageworks traverser), turn left and as your reader points out there is a massive piece of wasteland crying out for the start of a bridge from the Poppy Road side to link with Central.

You pass no houses whatsoever, only office buildings, many empty as with other parts of York.

The council plan is to build even more offices, and affordable housing.

I ask myself, with hundreds of new houses, if each has one car, where on earth are our wonderful planners going to put them?

Perhaps a high-rise parking block.

At least this way the protracted building work on the site wouldn’t be disruptive to hundreds of households.

Why make it simple when you can dream up the most convoluted ideas anyone could imagine?

William Moore, Lochrin Place, York