Cllr Nigel Ayre, below, and Steve Secker, top YORK'S Local Plan is "crucial" to helping the city recover from the pandemic - but City of York Council is failing to devote enough money and staff to the project, say leading figures in the property industry. Planning inspectors wrote to the council hitting out at delays to the Local Plan - which will outline where thousands of homes and businesses can be built across the city. The inspectors suggest the council scraps its draft plan, saying it may now be out of date and adding that it my be best to start from scratch.