IN reply to Jim Dawes (Letters, October 19) regarding being delighted at the provision of the new community stadium for York at Monks Cross, I do not agree that a new community stadium at Monks Cross needs to be built, as the current one is good enough and only needs a little improvement to accommodate both the football and rugby clubs of York.

The Labour group seem hell-bent on going through with this new community stadium at Monks Cross, even with a debt budget deficit of nearly £200 million in York.

Until this debt deficit is brought down by a considerable degree, we should start looking at improving the Huntington Stadium. But not until the £200 million debt deficit is tackled and brought down by the Labour Council in York.

Terry Smith, Classic Cutz, Fourth Avenue, York.

• THE dictionary definition of community reads: “a social group of any size whose members reside in a specific locality” – but how this can relate to both York and a revamped stadium that was once named Ryedale Stadium is beyond me. The clue is definitely in the name.

A true York Community Stadium would be located where it best serves, believe it or not, the community, and that means slap-bang in the middle of the city.

How about locating it in the “never to be” Hungate development area? That could do with a facelift and the city-centre shops will surely benefit from extra trade.

If that’s never going to be in budget, how about the underused Holgate Business Park? There’s plenty of land going begging and the travel links could hardly be better.

G Flakes, Holgate, York.