Leave historic city’s cobblestone square alone

I WAS horrified to learn, as a regular visitor to York, that the council intends to rip up the historic cobblestones of King’s Square.

This misguided venture is being done to supposedly make things easier for disabled people.

As a carer for someone in a wheelchair, I can say many disabled people think this completely unnecessary.

As one commented: “All they need to do is provide a metre-wide path around the cobbled area, not damaging the cobble setts.”

Is that too much like common sense?

Some months ago, East Riding Council proposed a similar scheme for the market area in Beverley. Such was the outcry they decided to have a rethink.

I wrote to the council, asking them to consider that they would be destroying part of the very character of the town that people visit it for.

I also mentioned that this idea might set a precedent and before long other towns in the district would be following. It is amazing how a bad idea can spread. It seems that my forboding about this has come true.

No other country in Europe would self-inflict damage on its historic town and city fabric. So why are we? Plain daft, as we might say in Yorkshire.