BUS STATION PLAN OPPOSED r'HE plan to erect a new bus station
8th December 1961, Page 51
8th December 1961
Page 51
Page 51, 8th December 1961
— BUS STATION PLAN OPPOSED r'HE plan to erect a new bus station
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• for Newark was taken a step further st week when Newark Town Council naroved the sale ot part of the site, 3tterdike, in Lombard Street, to the incolnshire Road Car. Co., Ltd. The ice was £8,550, for 79,300 square feet. Mr. J. R. Wilkinson described this as extremely bad business" and moved at the matter he referred back. He Id: it Was selling land in the town centre ir £1 a. square yard, when the council• id sold land on the outskirts for £5 a
square yard. The bus company would be gaining a monopoly.
Alderman J. H. Knight gave an assurance that it had been established that room would be left for other bus companies, for long-distance coaches, and for private parking.
The reference back • motion was defeated.