IN response to York’s Labour council planning on spending £1.5 million on a revamp of York’s Newgate Market (The Press, January 25), I believe that so much money should not be spent on the market in these times of austerity.

The market is in good working order and does its job as it is.

Surely, if £1.5 million is spent on a revamp, the market traders will carry the cost of this by an increase in their stall rents, putting further financial strain on them.

I believe that £1.5 million should be spent on elderly care, housing, repairing York’s potholed roads, reopening Lendal Bridge, ward committee funding, the bringing back of salt and litter bins to York’s streets or be used towards the freezing of York’s council tax.

Terry Smith, Fourth Avenue, York.