You can now buy autumn bedding plants grown by experts from the NYCC Horticultural Nursery. There’s a good selection of vibrant violas, pretty polyanthus, pansies, primula and wallflower plants along with a range of gardening accessories including planters, containers and compost. The nursery shop is open Monday to Sunday from 10am to 3pm*. You’ll find the nursery on Nursery Lane East, off Harlow Moor Road in Harrogate (please use the postcode HG2 0FH). If you would prefer you can now pre-order your plants before you visit using the click and collect service. For more information and online orders visit our website. *please note that the nursery shop will only be open at weekends until 10 October.
Since being launched last year, members of the UK’s first all hybrid car sharing club, have travelled almost 40,000 miles.
Co Wheels provides a fleet of hybrid cars for pay-as-you-go hire around the town for short (as little as half an hour) or long-term bookings (up to a week).
Each car has its own designated zone, and comes with a parking permit which allows parking anywhere in this area thanks to support from North Yorkshire County Council. Insurance, cleaning, servicing and refuelling are all included in the cost too. A van is also available for hire as part of the club.
Cars are available in Harrogate but Co Wheels hope to have a car in Knaresborough and Ripon soon.
Since coming out of lockdown, it has become clear that not everybody feels the same about Covid, and as a result, in some places levels of tension and anxiety have increased.
To try and raise awareness and encourage understanding, North Yorkshire County Council are launching the Respect & Protect campaign. The aim of the campaign is to normalise good and healthy behaviours to protect people and encourage respect for individual choices.
As we all learn to live with Covid, NYCC believe a little kindness and understanding towards each other will go a long way. The key messages of the campaign are therefore:
“We all feel differently about Covid….let’s be thoughtful’ ‘We are all learning to live in a world where Covid still exists… let’s be kind’
‘Everyone is entitled to respect, so let’s try to also protect each other by following the guidance as issued by the government’s autumn / winter plan’
The campaign will be evident around the County through online content, editorials in newspaper publications, and the roll out of various types of signage across market towns of North Yorkshire, including Ripon, Knaresborough and Harrogate.
NYCC is working in partnership with Public Health, Highways, Trading Standards, and Environmental Health, to ensure the signage is installed effectively, and there are plans made for removal once the campaign ends. The campaign is likely to run through to the end of winter.
It seems important to reinforce the key messages of the campaign even without the prefix of ‘…Covid…’
Perhaps we could all just have more of a try at ‘….let’s be thoughtful’ ‘… let’s be kind’
North Yorkshire Police have been made aware that fraudsters are posing as TV engineers and offering to help local residents retune their TV’s following the Bilsdale mast fire for a fee of £200.
Arqiva, the company which owns the Bilsdale mast, has advised that they are developing an official support plan with local organisations and details will be shared when available.
Anyone who is approached at home and concerned should call the police on 101 to make a report.
Dementia Forward Community Coffee Mornings are back, now on the 2nd Friday of the month, starting Friday 8 October with a Harvest Coffee Morning, 10am – 12 noon at George Armitage House, Burton Leonard HG3 3SD. Catch up over a cuppa and cake. Any harvest donations will be donated a local foodbank.
Criminals are using the NHS COVID Pass as a way to target the public by convincing them to hand over money, financial details and personal information. The NHS App is free. The NHS COVID Pass is free. The NHS will never ask for payment or any financial details.
Every Tuesday & Friday: 10am-2pm, Gracious Street Methodist Church, Knaresborough, HG5 8AN Every Wednesday: 10am-2pm, West Park United Reform Church, Harrogate, HG1 1EQ
Working in partnership with shops, cafés, supermarkets and Fareshare (fareshare.org.uk), the team use good quality ingredients to create delicious menus at the cafés. From hearty breakfasts to lovely lunches and desserts, all are served in a welcoming environment (including disabled access at both venues). When it comes to the bill, you’re invited to ‘pay as you feel’ (PAYF) – there are no fixed prices.
There are also food and flower stalls with items on a PAYF basis that would otherwise have gone to waste. Any profit supports the running of community groceries, providing affordable fresh food to people on a low income.
Compass Phoenixis a free, confidential health and wellbeing service for children and young people. The new service amalgamates the work of Compass BUZZ and Compass REACH services:
One-to-one and group work support and interventions for children and young people aged 9-19, with mild to moderate mental health issues.
Support to schools to develop a whole school approach towards emotional and mental well-being through the delivery of training.
Professional Consultation to school and college staff, providing advice and guidance on emotional wellbeing and mental health to help make sure that children and young people get the right support at the right time in the right place.
BUZZ US confidential text messaging service to young people aged 11-18 across North Yorkshire.
Description: 2 signs indicating entry to Copgrove, 1 on Wath Lane and 1 on Apron Lane.
Estimated Value: £710
Acquisition: Purchased in November 2020 and installed in February 2021.
Locations:
Wath Lane – Grid Reference:
Apron Lane – Grid Reference:
Recreation Field
Description: Enclosed field of public open space with a fenced children’s play area and small football pitch.
Location: Arkendale Road, Staveley. Grid Reference: SE
Rented From: Staveley Relief in Need Charity Rental Fee: £70 per annum
Allotments
Description: 2 allotment plots leased annually to local residents.
Location: Arkendale Road, Staveley. Grid Reference: SE
Rented From: Harrogate Borough Council Rental Fee: £40 per annum per site Lease Agreement
Posts & Chains
Description: A row of posts and chains along the edge of the village green west and the unmade road in front of the Royal Oak pub, acting as a barrier to prevent car parking on the green.
Location: Village Green West, Main Street, Staveley. Grid Reference: SE 363 627
Acquisition
Date: Not known Cost: £665
Current Use: Boundary fence
Notice Boards
Description: 3 village notice boards at various locations around the two villages.
Total Estimated Value: £1,425
Notice Boards 1 and 2
Location: Village Green East, Main Street, Staveley. Grid Reference: SE 366 627
Estimated Value: £950
Acquisition: 1997 and 2005/6
Key Holder(s): Bill Kirkpatrick, Neil Horton
Notice Board 3
Location: Start of St. Mongah’s Lane, Copgrove. Grid Reference: SE 345 632
Estimated Value: £475
Acquisition: 2002
Key Holder(s): Peter Edwards
Safety Barrier
Description: Safety barrier alongside the pull-in in front of the primary school. The Parish Council financed the barrier following the withdrawal of funds by North Yorkshire County Council.
Location: In front of primary school, Minskip Road, Staveley. Grid Reference: SE 366 628
Acquisition
Date: November 2011 Cost: £550
Current Use: Public safety barrier
Childrens Playground
Description: Childrens Playground, located on the recreation field comprising the following equipment items:
Wicksteed Whirly Bird
Record Cradle Swings
Record Flat Seat Swings
Hags Multi Pondo
Play and Leisure Multi Unit
Play and Leisure Fish Spring Mobile
Ledon Car Spring Mobile
Bench
Fencing and Gates
The playground is inspected annually by RoSPA and four times per year by a local specialist contractor. It is also visually inspected weekly by a team of local volunteers and stands on land rented annually from the Staveley Relief in Need Charity.
More information about the development of the childrens play area is available here. Maintenance of the playground is one of the Parish Council’s ongoing projects. Progress on the project can be seen by selecting the Children’s Play Area project page.
Location: Arkendale Road, Staveley. Grid Reference: SE 366 625
Acquisition: Adopted .
Estimated Value: £12,000
Bus Shelter
Description: Coated steel frame, clear screen shelter with 4 seats
Location: On village green east, Main Street, Staveley. Grid Reference: SE 366 627
Acquisition: January 2012. Purchased by the Parish Council, thanks to a donation from Abacus, a local employer based at Jubilee Court, Copgrove.
Description: Ex BT telephone box, now home to the village public defibrillator unit. The phobe box is a K6, designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott in 1936 and introduced to celebrate the King George V Silver Jubilee. It was probably installed under the ‘Jubilee Concession’, which meant kiosks were installed in every town and village with a Post Office. The K6 was 80 years old in 2016.
Location: Opposite the village green east, Main Street, Staveley. Grid Reference: SE 366 627
Acquisition: Phone box purchased from BT in May 2016 for a nominal sum of £1. The defibrillator was purchased from Wel Medical Ltd. and installed in June 2016.
Cost: £1,800 Current Valuation: Defibrillator £1,800. Replacement cost of K6 approx £2,500 plus delivery and installation.
Further Information:The defibrillator is checked weekly by the local Community First Responders coordinator. See Community First Responders for more details on how to use the unit.
Wooden Benches
Description: 5 wooden benches at various locations around the two villages.
Estimated Value: £1,900 for benches 1 – 4
Bench No. 1
Location: Wath Lane, Staveley. Grid Reference: SE 359 625
Acquisition: 1995
Bench No. 2
Location: Village Green West, Staveley. Grid Reference: SE 363 627
Acquisition: 1995
Bench No. 3
Location: Village Green West, Staveley. Grid Reference: SE 363 627
Acquisition: 1995
Bench No. 4
Location: Main Street, Staveley. Grid Reference: SE 365 627
Acquisition: 1995
Bench No.5
This seat was removed in 2020.
Location: Arkendale Road, Staveley. Grid Reference: SE 368 624
Bench No.6
Location: Open space on St. Mongah’s Lane, Copgrove. Grid Reference: SE 345 633
Estimated Value: £475
Acquisition: 2002
Stone Bench
Description: Wooden bench set within a stone surround.
Location: Junction of Main Street, Minskip Road and Arkendale Road, Staveley. Grid Reference: SE 366 627
Acquisition:
Estimated Value: £2,375
From the Archive: The seat when new in 1990
The Pinfold
Description: An animal pound where stray livestock were impounded. Animals were kept in a dedicated enclosure, until claimed by their owners, or sold to cover the costs of impounding. The term pinfoldis saxon in origin and common in the north of England. A village pound was a feature of most English medieval villages.
Location: Arkendale Road, Staveley. Size: approx 250 sq mt including the adjacent land. Grid Reference: SE 367 626
Acquisition: Erected in 1832 by public subscription and restored in 1986. Date: Not known Cost: £20,470 Current Valuation: £20,470
Current Use: Public amenity
Further Information: In 2012, thanks to an initiative by Staveley resident Ken Barker, a rose garden was planted in land next to the Pinfold to commemorate the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. In 2019 a new gate to the Pinfold was installed by D.Hargreaves (Blacksmith) of The Forge, Coneythorpe.
Village Green East
Description: Former allotment site, purchased from the estate of F.L. Knowlson. A copy of the deed of conveyance is available here.
Location: Junction of Main Street, Minskip Road and Arkendale Road, Staveley. Size: Grid Reference: SE 366 627
Acquisition
Date: 2nd September 1986 Cost: £750 Current Valuation: £750
Current Use: Public open space
From the Archive: Oak Tree Planting
Village Green West
Description: Triangle of land registered to the Parish Council under Section 3 of the Commons Registration Act 1965 when no evidence of ownership was offered to the Commissioner at a hearing in Harrogate on 31st October 1973. A copy of the decision notice is available here.
Location: In front of the Royal Oak pub Main Street, Staveley Size: Grid Reference: SE 363 627
Acquisition
Date: 9th November 1973 Cost: £0 Current Valuation:
