Spotlight
NYC: Port Safety – Of Sorts North Yorks Enquirer Harbours correspondent ALLAN ROBERTS reports on yet another salutary example of North Yorkshire Council staff benefitting from the time-honoured Council mantra “Lessons have been learned”. ~~~~~ In April 2024, NYC Planning [...]
NYC: Snakes & Ladders – an “In My View” article by NIGEL WARD, reporting on a discernible improvement in communications between Whitby residents and North Yorkshire Council’s Corporate Director of Environment (inc. Harbours), Mr Karl BATTERSBY. Top marks! (Well . [...]
NYC’s ‘Supersleuth’ CHRIS BOURNE – an “In My View” article by NIGEL WARD highlighting a thoroughly disreputable example of North Yorkshire Council high-handedness, disrespect and rank stupidity at managerial level. ~~~ Background Beginning around the time of the replica Spanish [...]
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 [...]
More Woes for ARRIVA – an “In My View” article by NIGEL WARD, offering a (slightly) informed opinion on the woeful state of public transport in and around Whitby – and a worrying portent that things may be worse than [...]
Guest Author ANDY STRANGEWAY (pictured above) has published his views on the ongoing litany of procrastination and apparent incompetence behind a stalled Planning Application which commenced with Hambleton District Council (HDC) and has now transferred to North Yorkshire Council (NYC). [...]
YCBID: SBC joins the ‘Refuseniks’ – an “In My View” article by NIGEL WARD, reporting on a curious development in the Scarborough Borough Council’s relationship with Yorkshire Coast BID Ltd (YCBID). ~~~~~ On 27th September 2022, Scarborough Borough Council (SBC) [...]
Guest Author Alderman Stormin’ NORMAN MURPHY writes to explain why, in his view, Scarborough Borough Council was right to pass a Vote of NO CONFIDENCE in the governance arrangements of Yorkshire Coast Business Improvement District Ltd (YCBID). ~~~~~ As those [...]
