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A public consultation about Richmond's Yorke Square car park has generated hundreds of responses.

The consultation involved posters, comment cards, a dedicated website. The Council also worked with the Save Our Shire group to stage a major consultation event, at The Station, in Richmond, which attracted more than 100 people.

There were over 300 responses and these have all now been made public on the Council's website, richmondshire.gov.uk/yorkesquare. Contributions ranged from brief, one-word answers, to letters of up to four pages long. One comment was even written entirely in German but fortunately a German-speaking Council officer was able to translate it!

The consultation process followed a Richmondshire District Council decision to collate a range of options for Yorke Square's future as a community resource. Council officers are now working to use the results of the consultation to draw up such a list. This will form part of a report to the Council's Strategy Board on September 9.