THE Spark York claim that a legally-binding lease obliges the Piccadilly site of shipping containers to be vacated by June 2020 means nothing (The Press, March 18).
I once applied for temporary permission for a large portable building taxi office in Layerthorpe.
The planning permission lasted three years; the same as the legal agreement for use of the site.
Towards the end of three years, the planning permission was renewed and fresh legal agreements drawn up.
This was repeated several times.
In the end the building stayed over 15 years until the site was eventually redeveloped.
Three years’ use is just not a sufficient timescale to justify the cost of importing and fitting out shipping containers in Piccadilly.
No one should be fooled into thinking that June 2020 is a sacrosanct date beyond which no shipping container will remain on the site. It is not.
Matthew Laverack, Lord Mayors Walk, York
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