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Objecting to the ARGOS Planning Application

Objecting to the ARGOS Planning Application an “In My View” article by NIGEL WARD, offering a few hints on how to make your objection count. ~~~~~ The North Yorks Enquirer has published a number of very informative articles concerning the [...]

November 15, 2020 Scarborough Borough Council

ARGOS: Heavyweight Planning Objection

ARGOS: Heavyweight Planning Objection  – an “In My View” article by NIGEL WARD, offering the opinion that the following formal Planning Objection signed off by six of the Borough’s best qualified and most experienced Planning gurus (collectively, over 150 years [...]

November 14, 2020 Scarborough Borough Council

EXCLUSIVE: Public Interest ARGOS Emails

Exclusive: Public Interest ARGOS Emails an “In My View” article by NIGEL WARD, giving a very necessary public airing to some rather furtive ‘public interest’ email exchanges. IF YOU NEVER READ ANOTHER NIGEL WARD ARTICLE, READ THIS ONE! ~~~~~ Readers [...]

November 11, 2020 Scarborough Borough Council

The Borough Dredger: VFM?

The Borough Dredger: VFM? Enquirer harbours correspondent ALLAN ROBERTS turns his attention to the ‘Value For Money’ element of the Borough’s dredging activities. ~~~~~ It was interesting to note that, during the Council meeting of November 2nd, 2020, Cllr Bastiman [...]

November 10, 2020 Scarborough Borough Council

Jobs For The Boys: Ed Asquith Edition

Everyone with more than a cursory interest in politics knows it is filled with the unemployable, the utterly corrupt and those running the show will funnel money to themselves and their friends at every opportunity. The Coronavirus Plandemic is no [...]

November 9, 2020 Scarborough Borough Council

“Sweeping Booty” – the Panto!

“Sweeping Booty” – the Panto! Guest Author NORMAN MURPHY reports on some seasonal entertainment inadvertently provided by YCBID and SBC’s delegated Prince Charming, Commercial Director RICHARD BRADLEY. It’s Panto time, folks! ~~~~~ Although it looks like we shall all be [...]

November 6, 2020 Scarborough Borough Council

“SBC Auditors Controversy”

“SBC Auditors Controversy” As well as covering crime and parliamentary affairs, Tim Hicks is also a Chartered Accountant. The Enquirer asked him for his opinion on the recent Financial Reporting Council report into the quality of the local authority audits [...]

November 5, 2020 Letters, Scarborough Borough Council

Birds of a Feather 

Birds of a Feather  an “In My View” article by NIGEL WARD, drawing readers’ attention to a rather damning indictment of our local authority’s auditors. ~~~~~ Allow me to introduce readers to an organisation with which they (and, I suspect, [...]

November 1, 2020 Scarborough Borough Council

“Whitby Winter Welcome”

“Whitby Winter Welcome” A Letter to the Editor from motorhomer and lifelong Whitby enthusiast TOM PEIL, of Preston, who does not intend to be deterred by the SBC Labour Leader’s small-minded ‘cold shoulder’ – to the Whitby Abbey Aire proposal, [...]

October 29, 2020 Letters, Scarborough Borough Council

Vision vs. Reality

Vision vs. Reality NYE harbours correspondent ALLAN ROBERTS offers the following rejoinder to ROGER PICKSTOCK’s recent Letter to the Editor on the subject of the Hemingway Design ‘Masterplan’ for the regeneration of Scarborough Harbour. ~~~~~ Having read Roger Pickstock’s analysis [...]

October 27, 2020 Scarborough Borough Council