Save Our Setts cobble campaigners march through Beverley's streets
Hundreds of residents took to the streets of Beverley today (Saturday) to campaign to keep cobbles in Saturday Market.
The Save Our Setts Campaign was launched by the Beverley Action Group to protest East Riding Council's plans to remove the coble setts.
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Save Our Setts campaigners in Beverley
As part of a £2.5m renovation of Saturday Market, the council intends to replace the cobbles with block paving, cut parking spaces, widen pavements and create a pedestrian area around the Market Cross. It says the changes will make the area more pedestrian-friendly.
Campaigners against the move gathered at Saturday Market at 10.30am. A piper led the march to County Hall.
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A spokesman for the Beverley Action Group said: "The visual quality and character of Saturday Market in Beverley is dependent on its fine Georgian and Victorian buildings, Yorkstone pavements and stone setts.
"East Riding Council proposes to implement a crude, inappropriate scheme that will remove these wonderful landmarks and change the character of Beverley's main square.
"We support the less costly and more sympathetic scheme proposed by Beverley Civic Society, to keep the setts, restore the Yorkstone pavements, with sawn Yorkstone and carry out basic maintenance."
Comments
by ArthurHunt
Wednesday, December 26 2012, 4:31PM
“Just to echo the sentence made by martin2013 (which I fully agree with):
If anything they should be restoring the setts and the pavements, in accordance with the wishes of the majority
It's called democracy - in case the Council has never heard of such a concept.....”
by eatmywords
Sunday, December 23 2012, 12:39PM
“Anyone wonder where the cobbles at the top of Whitefriargate went?
Some nice cobbled driveways about in some parts of Hull & East Riding.”
by democracy_now
Sunday, December 23 2012, 11:55AM
“Send them a strong message at the next local election by voting for someone else!”
by beverleybeck
Sunday, December 23 2012, 11:38AM
“what did these moaning minnies have to complain about when the sets where under tarmac for years.there a eyesore like some of the run down properties in beverley.look at hengate for one its a disgrace”
by unified
Sunday, December 23 2012, 10:04AM
“We in hull should do the same and demolish our slums. Starship with Wilberforce House, that's old”
by ooopratt
Saturday, December 22 2012, 9:34PM
“beverleybard is so right they are are well above their station, come the uprising we shall all meet on the barricades,or if wet 'nellies'.”
by beverleybard
Saturday, December 22 2012, 5:18PM
“Sorry to say it but all the people campaigning to save the setts are probably wasting their time. This decision was most likely signed and sealed months ago. The council have shown that they will not change their minds by wrapping up the exercise as "maintenance" in order to circumvent the need for planning permission, indicating that they do not intend to be deflected. They seem to have adopted the idea that they are our masters and not what they really are - our elected servants.”
by Strangley
Saturday, December 22 2012, 4:39PM
“It's a pity Beverley got rid of all the old houses where you could just stick your behind out of the first floor window, & take a dump in the street. It was much more in keeping with the town
Love the pair of green Hunters on the left”
by martin2013
Saturday, December 22 2012, 4:24PM
“The market place in Beverley is part of the character of the town, it helps it retain the feel of a Yorkshire market town. It could do with repair though!
If anything they should be restoring the setts and the pavements, in accordance with the wishes of the majority.
Why the desperation to update with 'modern materials'
The council needs to recognise what Beverley has to offer and improve it, instead of trying to update it.
One of that reasons that was given was that local builders need the work and also indicated the contractor was not even from Yorkshire. The council have made a mistake here and digging a hole for themselves! I just hope it won't be in the market place!”
by ooopratt
Saturday, December 22 2012, 2:51PM
“Must be the biblical hundreds.”