FOUR items of news in The Press recently have given me cause for concern and I hope that you will be able to get answers from Coun Alexander, who now heads the city council.

They are:

1. If the city council presses ahead with the ill-advised sale of the Union Terrace car park to the University of St John, where are all the coaches carrying visitors to the Minster, Bar Walls and the city centre to park, drop off and pick up?

2. Is it intended to provide a main road from Wigginton Road to Haxby Road as part of the development of the Nestlé site to relieve the daily congestion at the city’s hospital; and if not, why not?

3. It is reported that potential sites have been revealed for more than 9,000 new homes to be built in York over the next 20 years. As the city council has a long waiting list for housing, how many of these are to be built by the council, or are they sticking with their ineffective policy of expecting private house-builders to do the job for them.

4. It was reported (July 1) that there is to be a major shake-up of elderly people’s homes in the city with the possibility that one might close. As the number of elderly residents grows each year (I am an octogenarian) the city will need more care homes, not fewer. What proposals have the council to provide more care homes?

G A W Heppell, Riseborough House, Rawcliffe Lane, York.