How can City of York Council oppose the football club's application on the grounds that it will displace a running track and yet seem quite happy to allow a housing development that will displace the city's football team?
Surely planning permission on Bootham Crescent should be refused until a proper alternative is secured and if the Council insist on the running track then that alternative is not there.
When one considers the bigger picture the logical course is to sell Huntingdon Stadium (thus relieving York council tax payers of a Ryedale white elephant), build a running track at York University, have York City FC and York Rugby play at Bootham Crescent, and then compensate those who put Bootham Crescent up for sale.
This scenario is possible because the thing that drives York Council and the BCH directors is the same thing, ie. money.
The council will save money and the directors will get money without having a long planning process or having to donate part of their ill-gotten gains back to the football club.
The best thing about this though is that York will have well supported football and rugby teams at a proper stadium rather than at an abandoned athletics ground on an industrial estate.
Graham Goforth,
The Thorpe,
Amotherby,
North Yorkshire.
Updated: 09:05 Tuesday, July 15, 2003
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