Derelict York huts to be demolished
Asbestos-ridden huts in York that date back to the Second World War look likely to be demolished, to make way for a new outdoor arts centre.
The City of York Council and city centre area planning sub-committee is expected to approve the demolition of the derelict huts, which occupy the prime space between York Art Gallery and the Museum Gardens.
In place of the huts, it is hoped that new landscaping and access measures around the gallery and Museum Gardens will be built. The outline for the new scheme would see the existing lawn area enlarged and new pathways constructed.
"It is intended that the area where the huts are would be used as an outdoor display area for sculptures,” said a report by the council’s development management officer, Jonathan Kenyon.
"The huts are deemed to be of some historic and communal value, but their continued use is compromised by their high asbestos content and poor condition," the council's development management officer, Jonathan Kenyon, said in a report on the site.
"Their removal is compensated for by the public benefits and enhancements to other heritage assets, and as the huts will be subject to a recording and report of their history."
