Major investment and community efforts are transforming York’s play equipment and play areas for children across the city.

York’s Conservative-led Executive will vote tomorrow night on plans to build extra homes on council-owned land, which would give the city its biggest public sector house-building programme since the 1970s.

York’s Conservative-led council Executive will consider contract terms for delivery of the massive York Central development when it meets Thursday 17 January.

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.

“I have been asked by the Leaders of the Liberal Democratic and Green Groups, on behalf of the Conservative Group, to endorse a letter in advance of the Executive Meeting on Thursday to the City’s M.P.’s and Government Ministers.

For clarity, the resolutions detailed in the motion are:

Acomb Ward Conservative councillor Keith Myers has issued an invitation to his Labour counterpart to meet for ward meetings after it has emerged that Cllr. Stuart Barnes has met only six times in the last 3 ½ years with his ward colleague and ward officers, and not once in 2018.

The Post Office intends to relocate its business from the present Crown Office in Lendal, York, to the WH Smith store in Coney Street.

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.

The CYC Conservative Group’s motion for this Thursday’s Full Council asks officers to identify and support small areas of open space and informal green areas both within the city centre and in surrounding villages to create or to help foster amenity areas for local communities.

Following recent challenges to the Council’s Waste & Recycling Service, Councillors have agreed to spend £125K on improving the resilience of the service.