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UNISON PRESS RELEASE – UPDATE There has been no formal engagement with the Trade Unions or staff in relation to Harrogate staff having to transfer to Veritau rather than North Yorkshire. We are therefore somewhat angry that Harrogate Council is [...]
UNISON – the local government workers’ union – has issued the following Press Release: As the time approaches for the new North Yorkshire Council to come in to being on 1st of April, public service union UNISON is dismayed to [...]
Scarborough Borough Council is to be abolished in a nationwide local government reorganisation. The news comes as no surprise to viewers of independent news sites such as UK Column who’ve been reporting of major changes and a repurposing of UK [...]
HBC: Council Tax Dodging Councillors In response to a Freedom of Information request to Harrogate Borough Council, in the following terms: For each of the financial years 2011/12, 2012/13, 2013/14, 2014/15 and 2015/16 until the date of your response: (1) [...]
NYCC: Harrogate ‘Pedestrian Scramble’ Traffic-Lights Fiasco an “In My View” article by NIGEL WARD, examining the paper trail of a corporate cock-up in Harrogate, North Yorkshire. ~~~~~ Background Harrogate has a long history of traffic management problems. For those with [...]
A quick look around Knaresborough’s Controlled Parking Zones (CPZs) on Google Streetmap shows that Harrogate Borough Council (HBC) replicated the Knaresborough signage from their Harrogate CPZs. Like the Harrogate, Scarborough and Whitby’s CPZs, the signage does not make a single [...]
A quick look around Harrogate Borough Council’s (HBC) Controlled Parking Zones (CPZs) on Google Streetmap yields a clue where Scarborough Borough Council (SBC) copied their CPZ signage from. Like Scarborough and Whitby, Harrogate’s CPZs do not make a single mention [...]
Harrogate Borough Council and the £4-billion nationwide Council Tax SCANDAL an “In My View” article by NIGEL WARD, contemplating the ramifications of a monstrous Council faux pas in North Yorkshire and all over this land – with special thanks to [...]
Despite repeated calls to reform the system nearly £32,000 per annum is being overpaid to Councillors across North Yorkshire in the form of an IT / Broadband Allowance. Over the last four years around £125,000 has been overpaid to Councillors [...]
