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Flats to be built next to Dick Turpin's grave

Joe Gerrard
Local Democracy Reporting Service
Google A run-down working men's club, with a boarded-up entrance and graffiti on the walls.Google
The Tramways Club on Mill Street shut in January 2019

A former working men's club next to the final resting place of infamous highwayman Dick Turpin is to be replaced by an apartment block.

Plans approved by York councillors will see the vacant Tramways Club on Mill Street demolished with 35 flats built on the site.

Developer Oakgate City Living said it would provide "much-needed" homes in one of York's most sustainable locations.

But York Central Labour MP Rachael Maskell raised concerns along with 12 objectors, saying there was "not an urgency to develop more luxury accommodation in the area".

LDRS An artist's impression of the flats - light-coloured brickwork over four floors.LDRS
The proposed apartment block next to St George's Churchyard in York

The flats would be built alongside St George's Churchyard, where Turpin's grave is located - although its authenticity is disputed by some historians.

Highwayman and horse thief Turpin - otherwise known as John Palmer - was hanged at York's Knavesmire in 1739.

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