It has been revealed today that the sports tent on Heslington West, an important indoor sports facility on campus, will be kept open for another six years.
A City of York Council sub-committee agreed to an extension of the current permit, on the condition that more information about a permanent replacement were produced within four years.
The tent was opened in 2005, but, as it was deemed to be a temporary structure it was agreed that a permanent replacement would be in place within 5 years.
As the University had failed to produce these plans at the end of this term, City of York Council last week appeared reluctant to grant the University the 10-year permit extension they were asking for.
A report on the matter stated that “the university appears at this stage to have no firm plans for a replacement despite the continuing need for a sports hall at Heslington West. This uncertainty is insufficient reason to justify extending the planning permission by ten years.”
However, the Council seems to have had a change of heart, and compromised by voting to let the tent stay open for another six years.
“This is an outcome that we had expected and that we welcome, despite more pessimistic views from local and campus media,” York Sports President Sam Asfahani said in a statement. He also stressed that “the situation has highlighted a need for the University to not only look towards new construction on Hes East but also the continual development of Hes West.”
Finally, he warned that it was essential that students lobby hard to “ensure that the near future holds a new sports hall instead of our tent.”
Rehashing of Nouse. This is why you do so badly.
Yawn. Oddly I think that goes even more for that comment that the rehashed story. Someone seriously needs to get out more with boring, heard it all before comments like that.
@m – ‘This is why you do so badly’? at what?
There is always going to be similar news in two student news websites at the same university, get over it.
are the same group of people on Nouse & vision.
the “n” person here is not one of us.
@m & n
What?
Please tell me your not criticising someone else’s writing when your comment was incomprehensible.
We are just pointing out that the person who wrote comment number 3 is not us.
Also, yes, ofcourse there is going to be common material between two campus newspapers, it’s just that this feels “too similar in structure” in the first two paragraphs, and perhaps slightly lacking in figures and detail compared to Nouse’s offering.
However, it is still pleasing to see both campus papers producing material during non-term time.