Category: Community

It’s a #CrimeNotToCare when it comes to getting rid of your rubbish. In the month of March Harrogate Borough Council (HBC) are launching a campaign to tackle the epidemic of fly tipping that is affecting communities up and down the country. In the HBC District in the past 12 months there have been just over 570 incidents of fly tipping and this has cost the council, i.e. the taxpayer, in the region of £40,000 to clear up.

#CrimeNotToCare, which is being run in partnership with environmental charity Keep Britain Tidy, aims to educate householders about the right thing to do with their rubbish and to reduce the amount of household waste that is fly-tipped by rogue traders who offer to take people’s waste away for money and then dump it. The campaign aims to get the message across that if an individual’s waste is fly tipped, even if they gave it to a third party to dispose of, they can be prosecuted and end up with a fine and a criminal record. A leaflet with further information is available here.

Further to the recent news of the possibility of a new Post Office mobile service coming to Staveley, the Postmaster at Ripon Post Office has now confirmed that they are willing to offer services to the village, in the belief that the establishment of a Mobile service presents the best possible solution to restore Post Office services to local communities.

The mobile Post Office will be located in the Staveley & Copgrove Village Hall Car Park, Main Street, Staveley, HG5 9LD on Fridays at 11:15am to 12:15pm. The service is scheduled to start week commencing Monday 23 March 2020.

The Parish Council has recently received reports of dogs being exercised in the Jubilee Recreation Field on Arkedale Road, Staveley so we would like to remind all residents that as the field is primarily a childrens play area, no dogs are permitted. This applies to the Recreation Field as a whole as well as the inner fenced playground area. A new sign has been installed to this effect.

Thanks for your help in keeping the Recreation Field dog free and a suitable place for children to play. Please let the Parish Council know if you see any dogs in the field.

Harrogate Street Aid (HSA) was launched at the end of October 2019 and it has raised over £2000 so far, meaning applications for grants can soon be opened.

HSA is a partnership initiative developed to look into the issue of street sleeping and begging in the Harrogate district. No one likes to see people on the streets – many of these people are vulnerable and need support. A working group was set up from the Community Safety Hub, a regular multi-agency meeting, with representation from Harrogate Borough Council (HBC) Community Safety and Housing Options teams, North Yorkshire Police (NYP), Harrogate Homeless Project (HHP), North Yorkshire Horizons (NYH), MIND, and NHS mental health services. Businesses have been very supportive.

Part of the recent Allerton Park Landscape and Curtural Heritage Fund grant to the Parish Council was for renovation works around and within the Staveley Pinfold. General tree and hedge clearance work around the pinfold was undertaken last month and on Monday 23rd December 2019 the final task of installing a new custom made gate was completed.

Local agricultral engineer and blacksmith D. Hargreaves from The Forge at Coneythorpe made and installed the gate.

As previously reported, the Parish Council has been awarded a grant from the Allerton Park Cultural Heritage and Landscape Fund to carry out various improvement works around Staveley. This grant will be used to improve the heritage area around the village Pinfold and the Jubilee Recreation Field, together with the replacement of a tree on the village green west and the refurbishment of the phone box which houses the public AED (automatic external defibrillator).

The works are scheduled to start on 20th September 2019 and continue over the next couple of weeks. A more detailed specification of works being undertaken is available from the Parish Clerk if required.