Plans to build on botanic garden are disgraceful
Tony Green, Headingley
“Thank you for your careful article on the subject of 6 Grosvenor Gardens in Headingley (YEP, March 16).
The university spokesperson’s assertion that the proposed development of the site would provide ‘much needed family housing’ is disingenuous.
With the exception of the conversion of the old gardener’s cottage, the development proposes eight shoeboxes, which no family would touch with a bargepole.
They would have nowhere to park an ironing board, let alone a baby buggy.
Sure, they would be okay as starter homes for young childless couples (if they could afford them), but ‘family housing’? Beam me up Scotty…”