York

Major investment and community efforts are transforming York’s play equipment and play areas for children across the city. Together with City of York Council’s capital investment of £170,000, parishes, wards and communities have come together to contribute funding towards York’s equipment and play areas for children, amounting to £400,000 in total.

Cllr Jenny Brooks, executive member for housing and safer neighbourhoods, said: "As well as meeting general housing need and providing over twice the council homes and low cost properties than planning policy requires, we will ensure that the housing needs of a broader range of York residents are met."

Councillor Ian Gillies, leader of City of York Council, said: “Without this partner and public sector leadership, we wouldn’t be on the brink of delivering this once in a lifetime regeneration. It is only right that York residents benefits from York Central’s future success as we reinvest in the city we love."

Conservative led City of York Council is set to invest £1.6million in a new Clean Air Zone (CAZ) in York, which is aimed at improving exhaust emissions from local bus services.

Rawcliffe and Clifton Without Conservative councillors Stuart Rawlings, Sam Lisle and Peter Dew have worked with Yorkshire Water to secure a new action plan to address smells from the company’s Rawcliffe waste water treatment works.

Julian Sturdy, Member of Parliament for York Outer, has once again supported the ‘Small Business Saturday’ initiative, this year visiting Swains butchers based in Copmanthorpe. Small Business Saturday celebrates the contribution of small and medium sized businesses across the country.

York Central, the city’s huge 72 hectare brownfield development site, will be on the agenda at next Thursday’s meeting of the Conservative-led Executive, which will consider the investment case for the York Central Enterprise Zone and recommend that full council establish a capital budget to implement the project .