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Dogs in the Jubilee Recreation Field

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.

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Dog Fouling

The Parish Council asks that those dog owners who are not clearing up after their dog to please do so.  We believe that people do generally pick up along the roadsides but don’t think they need to in “open countryside”! There are dog waste and litter bins located conveniently around the village to make this job easier or take the waste home with you for disposal. The litter bins are emptied by the Harrogate Borough Council (HBC) street cleaning teams. Everyone in the village is paying for this service, so please use it and help keep your village a pleasure to walk in.

We benefit from having many footpaths and open designated routes through fields and along hedgerows, all crossing private land. These routes are available to all and as such, are just as much a part of the villages as the pavements. No one wants to walk through dog waste, so please pick it up wherever you may be.

Dog faeces are not only unpleasant and unsightly but also a carry a harmful infection, which can cause serious illness and/or disability if ingested.

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Website Accessibility

Our website is the Parish Council’s main way of meeting our statutory obligations of providing information on our activities to the public. Over the past eighteen months we have been extending the site to cover all aspects of our business. We now need to ensure that the website is fully accessible i.e. making sure it can be used by as many people as possible, and for this we would like your help.

Accessibility includes people with:

  • impaired vision,
  • motor difficulties,
  • cognitive impairments or learning disabilities,
  • deafness or impaired hearing.

Accessibility means more than just putting things online. It means making our content and design clear and simple enough so that most people can use it without needing to adapt it, while supporting those who do need to adapt things. For example, someone with impaired vision might use a screen reader (software that lets a user navigate a website and ‘read out’ the content), braille display or screen magnifier. Or someone with motor difficulties might use a special mouse, speech recognition software or on-screen keyboard emulator.

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Harrogate Street Aid

Harrogate Street Aid Poster - Helping people on the street turn a corner

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.

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Staveley Pinfold Gets New Gate

The New Staveley Pinfold Gate

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.

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Allerton Park Landscape and Cultural Heritage Fund Grants Update

Work Starts along Wath Lane, Staveley

Grant 1

The Parish Council received a grant of £9,176 from the Allerton Park Landscape and Cultural Heritage Fund (APLCHF) in October 2019 to carry out improvement works to the Jubilee Recreation Field, the village green west, the Pinfold and the phone box on Main Street housing the community defibrillator. The works to the Jubilee Recreation Field and village green west have now been completed. The new gate to the Pinfold is in production and expected to be installed by the end of December 2019. The phone box refurbishment has been postponed until the spring as wet weather at the scheduled time of the works prevented the contractor from starting.

Following all this work the areas are looking so much more cared for and especially the Jubilee Recreation Field which, if it weren’t for the weather would offer a wonderful place for children to play safely. In the spring a little further work will be needed there to remove the ivy and brambles from the hedge along the roadside plus planting a few new hedge plants to in-fill. Volunteers for this small project will be required. Please contact the Parish Council if you are willing to spare a Saturday morning in February to lend a hand.

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Staveley Traffic Survey Results

Following the decision at the last Parish Council meeting (minute 8.5), a traffic survey was recently commissioned from North Yorkshire County Council (NYCC) for Main Street and Arkendale Road Staveley. The survey took place at the two sites for a period of seven days from 13th to 19th September 2019, using traffic counting cables.

The survey results are now available and can be seen in full here (Main Street) and here (Arkendale Road). A summary of the directional results for each of the seven days is available here.

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Forthcoming Staveley Improvement Works

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.

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New ‘No Footway’ Sign for Minskip Road

North Yorkshire County Council (NYCC) have confirmed that they will action a ‘No Footway’ warning sign to motorists when approaching Staveley along the Minskip Road. The Parish Council (PC) requested a sign following resident comments at the last PC meeting on the dangers of walking the section of road between the Staveley Nature Reserve car park entrance and the village.

NYCC also stated:

However, we are afraid we have no funds to change the current situation. It is a rural unrestricted road, which unfortunately would not qualify for any measures to reduce vehicle speeds, or provide additional footways.

We are advised that the sign will be installed by the end of October 2019.