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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Housing
Objection to Rievaulx Road greenspace sell off
On 27/11/2025 North Yorkshire Council posted a Public Notice, as follows [link] Local Government Act 1972 – Section 123(2A) NOTICE IS HEREBY […]
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 […]
Whitby Parish Neighbourhood Plan is needed
On Tuesday 7th November 2023 there was a Whitby Town Council (WTC) meeting. We decided to attend, since the fact that they […]
NYC Consultations on Housing
North Yorkshire Council (NYC) are conducting 2 consultations currently on the topic of housing. The first involves how social housing is allocated. […]
Affordability of new builds in Whitby (Aug 2023)
In our general Housing page outlining the problems with housing in Whitby we touched on the aspect of affordability, particularly when you […]
How many dwellings in Whitby are second/holiday homes (2021 Census edition)?
Whitby Community Network has previously quoted ONS estimated figures from the 2011 Census that there were 19.9% of dwellings with no usual […]
Whitby Cemetery Extension Anger
Scarborough Borough Council (SBC) have been attempting to find a site for a cemetery extension given that the current Whitby cemetery will […]
NeighbourhoodPlan for Whitby
Whitby Town Council requested permission to start preparing a Local Neighbourhood Plan for Whitby, and Scarborough Borough Council have approved this. A […]
Affected by the housing problems in Whitby and want to share your experience?
The fact that the order of 28% of all residences in Whitby are now second-homes / holiday-lets and the subsequent impact on […]