Share your thoughts on making the city centre more family-friendly

The My City Centre York project is based around an open conversation with people in York about what you want the city centre to look like.

The conversation, led by City of York Council is being used to shape a vision for the city centre.

This has involved listening to the views, ideas and suggestions from families on what you want the city centre to look like in the future.

The council has used the feedback to develop a draft vision for the city centre.

The final vision will guide investment, and shape improvement projects in the city centre for decades to come. Learn more about the vision: https://www.york.gov.uk/MyCityCentreYorkVision

The vision is split into 8 themes: a family friendly city centre, events, experiences & investment in public spaces, an attractive city offer at all times, making tourism work for York, embracing our riversides, a city centre community which is welcoming to all, thriving businesses and no empty buildings and heritage and our modern city.

The first, and one of the most crucial of these themes is around creating a family-friendly city centre.

Families are key to helping create a vibrant city-centre.

Whilst the city is a popular destination for visiting families, it is less well used by local residents, with issues cited around: affordability, ease of access, suitable facilities, appropriate attractions and an unwelcoming atmosphere at certain times.

In addition to this, a recent York Mumbler poll highlighted that many York families didn’t feel that the city centre was family-friendly.

The Council wants to attract local families into the centre, and wants to  improve basic facilities such as toilets.

Ideas for making the city centre more family-friendly

A number of ideas have been developed to help ensure that York city centre is a family-friendly place. These are:

• Creating exciting new play spaces in the city centre
• Using open space for cultural and family activities
• Encouraging venues and spaces that are used by people of all ages
• Improving toilet provision and facilities
• Improving information on city events for residents
• Providing more covered and indoor spaces to spend time in all weather
• Supporting new experience based attractions in the centre.

 

Join the conversation

Families in York have the chance shape the final My City Centre Vision.

Share your thoughts on the ideas to make York city centre more family-friendly by completing a short survey, which takes around 10 minutes. The survey closes on Thursday 30 September.

Follow the link to complete the survey: https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/MyCityCentreVision