ON a recent visit to my home city, I was interested to read of a new plan for York.
Since the Romans left there has been little planned development but after 1945 various Acts of Parliament encouraged local councils to make such plans and in 1948 we had the truly daunting Plan for the City of York that, mercifully, was never realised but just faded away.
The York Civic Trust achieved much detailed improvement by constantly nudging the council but it was not until 2005 that another plan emerged – a detailed report in over 100 pages called York - new city beautiful which, like its predecessors emphasised green spaces. This too seemed to have faded away.
The present scheme is referred to as a ‘vision’ but I fear that like the others that’s just what it is – a vision, “a figment of the imagination, an optical illusion with no basis in reality”.
Ken Wilson, Woodbridge Road, Ipswich
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