Friday 08th December 2023,
North Yorks Enquirer

All posts by Nigel Ward

Whitby Electors call Town Meeting/Assembly

Whitby Electors call Town Meeting/Assembly – an “In My View” article by NIGEL WARD, reporting on Whitby Town Clerk Mr Michael KING’s proposal to increase the Parish Precept (local Council Tax) from £283K this year to £412K next – a [...]

December 6, 2023 Whitby Town

Scarborough Parking Re-Set

Scarborough Parking Re-Set – an “In My View” article by NIGEL WARD, following up on his recent article “Whitby Parking Blunder” (highlighting enforcement problems at the Church Street Long Stay Car Park in Whitby). A reader has provided photographic evidence [...]

December 1, 2023 North Yorkshire County Council

Whitby Parking Blunder

Whitby Parking Blunder – an “In My View” article by NIGEL WARD, highlighting a calamitous parking loophole in Whitby’s Church Street off-street Long Stay Car Park. One wonders why no local Abbey Ward or Streonshalh Councillor in the immediate neighbourhood [...]

November 27, 2023 North Yorkshire County Council

Whitby: That ‘Plinth’

Whitby: That ‘Plinth’ – an “In My View” article by NIGEL WARD, examining the controversy over the strongly-opposed proposal by the Whitby Town Deal Board (WTDB) to erect a ‘plinth’ (or ‘apron’) in Whitby Market Place, to the west of [...]

November 22, 2023 North Yorkshire County Council

WTC Totally Dysfunctional

WTC Totally Dysfunctional – an “In My View” article by NIGEL WARD, offering an assessment of the pusillanimous way in which Whitby Town Council, at its meeting of Full Council on 7th November 2023, addressed the outcome of the Whitby [...]

November 8, 2023 Whitby Town

SLAPP Happy WTC?

SLAPP Happy WTC? – an “In My View” article by NIGEL WARD, reporting on bizarre actions by certain members of Whitby Town Council who seem to have abused the public purse by instigating an unlawful attempt to silence valid and [...]

November 6, 2023 Whitby Town

Vexatious Potto

Vexatious Potto – an “In My View” article by NIGEL WARD, investigating the wild tactics of self-denial and point-blank refusal to acknowledge the difficult truths that continue to blight the hopelessly deficient and unlawful Potto Parish Council, arguably the worst [...]

November 5, 2023 Potto

WTC Clerk on the Move?

WTC Clerk on the Move? – an “In My View” opinion piece by NIGEL WARD, commenting on a reader’s speculation that Whitby Town Clerk/RFO, Mr Michael KING, may be contemplating a move to pastures new . . . ~~~~~ A [...]

October 29, 2023 Whitby Town

The Cult of the Clerk

The Cult of the Clerk – an “In My View” article by NIGEL WARD, examining the root cause of how and why so much of the lowest tier of local government is in such an intractable mess. ~~~~~ Parish and [...]

October 27, 2023 Town & Parish, Whitby Town

YARM Town Council ‘Implosion’ Escalates

YARM Town Council ‘Implosion’ Escalates – an “In My View” article by NIGEL WARD, following up on a prophetic Letter to the Editor (published on 13th July 2023), entitled “Yarm Town Council Imploding?”. As the toxicity heightens, the probity shrinks [...]

October 25, 2023 Town & Parish