There will be a new parking bay built in St Stephen’s Road next week as part of the progress that has been made in providing additional parking in the area. It is a joint venture between the local Cornlands & Lowfields Residents Association who were able to get £5,000 for the work from the York Federation of Residents Associations, with the funding gap of £1,700 coming from the Westfield Ward Committee to enable the scheme to happen.

The location is around the block of flats 62-74 which does not currently have a parking bay, which will help the number 24 bus to get around the estate. Work will be completed in the week commencing 17/10/16.

This is the second parking scheme where a top-up from the locally decided Ward Committee Funds have enable a scheme to take place (the previous one is the layby on Ridgeway close to the Baptist Church) and shows what can be done by letting communities decide how budgets are allocated. Residents will shortly be balloted for further Ward Committee funding with the opportunity for £10,000 to be added to the parking project in the Ward which will work alongside other sources of funding for this work.