I think I should point out that the proposal to site the York City stadium at Monks Cross raises one major question: where are the spectators going to park?

This area, with three supermarkets as well as a large shopping complex, is very crowded, on Saturdays especially. On the few occasions I have visited this site at the weekend I have had great difficulty in parking, so what is likely to happen when a thousand or more cars arrive?

Mike Usherwood, Mendip Close, Huntington, York.

• FOLLOWING recent reports in The Press, I sensed a horrible inevitability about Monks Cross becoming the preferred location for York’s community stadium. It appears to tick all the easiest-option boxes.

I can imagine that the easiest solution, with the short-term answers it affords, will prevail as the most “rational” way forward; but I hope weight might be given to considerations of quality – not least the dismal quality of experience that goes with a location such as Monks Cross.

I speak as a football fan who attends many of York City’s home games and values something beyond the match itself – meeting up with friends, having a pre-match pint, walking to the ground.

I know I’m far from alone in this.

I also speak as someone who worked for a short while in one of the bland office blocks at Monks Cross and feels entitled to make the observation that “community” and Monk’s Cross, are complete contradictions in terms.

This is a soulless, dispiriting environment and a planning disaster for York.

I wonder why Monks Cross finds quite such favour with York City FC’s board. Why not ask York RL fans what happened to their club (York Wasps) after the move from Clarence Street to the “Ryedale” stadium?

David Gamston, Fulfordgate, York.