According to your article about development at the Eye of York (January 16), City of York Council still wants more shops in the centre of York.
This follows your article when it was pointed out that two large shopping units in George Hudson Street have been empty for four years and two years respectively (January 14). I should have thought that George Hudson Street is nearer the centre of York as defined by the city walls, than the proposed development at the end of Castlegate.
Perhaps we could be told if the council is re-locating the centre of the city to the south, away from the old accepted shopping centre of Coney Street,
Parliament Street and Petergate, all of which now have many empty properties that were previously shops.
There should be no further new development until something is done about the dereliction overtaking other parts of the city.
A T Acomb,
Hillcrest Avenue,
Nether Poppleton,
York.
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