Whitby Parish : Second Homes Premium for 2025-2026
For the financial year 2025-2026 North Yorkshire Council (NYC) introduced a second home premium to council tax, meaning that dwellings with no […]
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Council Organisation
WTC Budget 2026-2027
December and January are always busy months for town and parish councils, to set their budget for the following year, and decide […]
North Yorks Fire and Rescue : Community Risk Management Strategy Survey
North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue have been consulting on a proposed Community Risk Management Strategy for 2025-2029. Given that we have just […]
English Devolution/Community Empowerment Bill 2024-2025 – letter(s) to Alison Hume
A bill is currently passing through the UK Parliament entitled the “Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill 2024-2025” [link]. We wrote to Alison […]
NYC Area Committee venue
North Yorkshire Council (NYC) divides the county up into “area commitees” for supposedly allowing local decisions to be made more local. As […]
NYC Local Plan “Issues and Options” Response
Recently we provided an overview of the current NYC Local Plan consultation entitled “Issues and Options”. This is for a Local Plan […]
NYC Local Plan “Issues and Options” Consultation
The North Yorkshire Local Plan is intended to replace Local Plans for the 7 former boroughs, and is expected to be in […]
NYC Continual Desire to Build on Green Space – Lovell Homes venture
In 2021, Scarborough Borough Council (SBC) put in motion a plan to sell off an amount of green space for the purposes […]
Fight4Whitby questions Maritime Hub tenancies
The Fight4Whitby campaign has apparently sent a further letter to North Yorkshire Council (NYC), this time regarding the proposed tenancies of the […]
Letter to NYC Regarding School Catchment Free Transport
North Yorkshire Council changed their Home to School Transport Policy last year. The change means that children will only get free transport […]