Year: 2025

North Yorkshire Council is meeting national targets for dealing with planning applications despite not having enough planning officers, councillors have been told. Members of North Yorkshire Council’s executive committee heard this week that the department […]

North Yorkshire Council is looking to cut tooth decay in children by funding a programme to oversee a supervised teeth-brushing programme for the under fives. The authority wants to commission a provider to run a […]

Council chiefs have rejected requests from North Yorkshire residents to make roads in their communities a high priority for winter gritting. North Yorkshire Council declined 20 out of 21 applications for amendments to its winter […]

Fire crews were called to a car fire on the A1 this morning. The incident happened at 7.44am today on the southbound carriageway between Catterick and junction 51 at Leeming. Fire crews from Bedale, Darlington […]

North Yorkshire Police are appealing for information – and CCTV footage – after a series of burglaries in Northallerton. The offences took place in the Romanby area during the early hours of Wednesday, 6 August […]

North Yorkshire Council has been accused of  “playing dirty” over its handling of home-to-school transport appeals with campaigners threatening to file an official complaint. Dozens of parents have lodged appeals after being refused a bus […]

Plans have been lodged for up to 484 new homes, a primary school and a neighbourhood centre in Northallerton. An outline planning application for the major development on 28 hectares of agricultural land off Stokesley […]

A woman who caused hundreds of pounds’ worth of damage by spraying graffiti on two businesses in Northallerton told police, “it’s just a bit of paint.” Kirsty Mayne, 32, sprayed a red circle with a […]

A decision by North Yorkshire Council bosses to lend the authority’s commercial house-building business an extra £1.4m was the “right thing to do”, councillors say. Senior Conservative councillors today backed the move to provide further […]

North Yorkshire Council chiefs are warning that the authority will need to use £57m from its reserves over the next three years if it does not make savings. Deputy leader and executive member for finance […]