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Jul 2022
Last Updated: 22/07/2022
Stray Views: Station Gateway 'will degrade things'
In this week's Stray Views, readers have written in about Harrogate's Station Gateway project and criticised "satanic imagery" in the town.
Letters
Stray Views is a weekly column giving you the chance to have your say on issues affecting the Harrogate district. It is an opinion column and does not reflect the views of the Stray Ferret. Send your views to letters@thestrayferret.co.uk.
Station Gateway criticism
Having read the latest on this project I see that the council admit that pedestrianising James Street will reduce business by 2% and that by reducing Station Parade to one lane a journey round town would increase by 73 seconds.
From day one of this ludicrous scheme we have been told how it will improve everything and be a big benefit to Harrogate.
It would appear that so far the only thing guaranteed is that it will degrade things. It would seem that the maths I was taught in school in the 50s do not conform to modern teaching if these figures are now considered an improvement.
Malcolm Hodgekinson, Harrogate
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'Satanic imagery' in Harrogate
I must strongly object to what can only be described as the Satanic imagery featured in the posters in the streets and website for the "Harrogate Carnival".
A "person" in a fetish leather clad red dress featuring devil horns and scary red makeup is not what I would call "family friendly".
If this is representative of what this Carnival is about then I don't think it is appropriate for young children to attend, I certainly won't be bringing my family to it.
I would like to know if my hard earned council tax money is being spent on this outrage to good taste and decency?
Ian Hardcastle, Harrogate
Borough council 'ignored' over Woodfield School
Harrogate Lib Dems are very angry at North Yorkshire County Council for ignoring our plea, made at the last Harrogate Borough Council meeting, to stop the closure of Woodfield School, which was agreed by all councillors.
The North Yorkshire Conservative Executive Member responsible for Education has not stopped the closure of the school and declined to ask the Secretary of State for Education to remove the academisation order leaving the children of Woodfield in difficult circumstances, long walks to schools and in one case, so far, siblings being potentially sent to different schools.
We need more schools in Harrogate not less with thousands of houses still to be built in Kingsley where will all these young people go for their schooling? This is a disgrace and the young people of Woodfield are being let down so, so badly.
Pat Marsh, leader of the Liberal Democrats on Harrogate Borough Council
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