From North Yorkshire Community Messaging:
On Mon 1st August in the Ryedale area a couple were flagged down whilst in their vehicle by a young Asia male. When they spoke with him he stated he had run out of petrol and had no money to buy any, he offered his gold ring in exchange. This is a scam – if you are approached/flagged down please contact NYP on 101 giving all details especially the car registration number.
Monday 23 May, 6.55pm, Northallerton.
North Yorkshire County Council’s Planning Committee has approved Third Energy’s application to carry out fracking at a well in Kirby Misperton.
At the end of a two day meeting at County Hall in Northallerton, the committee voted by a majority of 7 to 4 to accept their planning officers’ recommendation that they approve, subject to conditions, the application to test-frack at the KM8 deep well.
This vote came in spite of the overwhelming local opposition to fracking, demonstrated in over 4,000 representations to the Council and a full day of presentations to the committee on Friday, from experts and laypeople opposing the application.
Opponents of the controversial and novel technique believe “it only starts with one well” and that this decision may, in effect, fire the starting gun on fracking across North Yorkshire, and could ultimately lead to the industrialisation of Ryedale’s rural landscape.
In the event, the committee accepted the company’s assurances regarding the safety of the operation and the effectiveness of their control measures.
Whether this is a black day for Ryedale or the dawning of a new age of energy independence remains to be seen.
Wednesday 25 May, 7pm, Merchant Taylors Hall and Merchant Adventurers Hall (above), York
A truly unique event and a chance to explore the Merchant Taylors Hall, not normally open to the public.
York’s two great medieval halls host an unmissable and unique collaborative event between the Companies of the Adventurers and Taylors of York and the Ryedale Festival. This Double Concert features world-renowned artists and celebrates the 600th anniversary of the Merchant Taylors’ Hall as well as providing an opportunity for the Ryedale Festival to launch its 2016 programme to York audiences. Both concerts are performed twice; the audiences will change places at the interval.
In the Merchant Adventurers’ Hall the Heath Quartet evoke the world of War and Peace with Tchaikovsky’s noble and lyrical 1st String Quartet. Its famous slow movement is based on a Ukrainian folksong that famously moved Leo Tolstoy to tears.
In contrast, the Merchant Taylors’ Hall is the setting for an irresistible and varied recital by one of the country’s leading musicians, Catrin Finch, known as ‘The Queen of Harps’, and former Royal Harpist to HRH The Prince of Wales.
Please consider joining us for what promises to be a special evening on Wednesday 25th May 2016 at 7.00pm at the Merchant Taylors’ Hall and the Merchant Adventurers’ Hall.
There is a 7 to 10 minute walk between venues.
Tickets for this concert are £30.
To book please contact the Festival Box Office on 01751 475777 (Mon-Wed 9.30 – 2.00) or by email [email protected]
To see more details of the concerts at the main Festival in July, please visit the Ryedale Festival website.
The Merchant Adventurers’ Hall is of major national importance and is a grade 1 listed building and scheduled ancient monument. It was built between 1357 and 1361, before most of the craft or trade guild halls in Britain, making it one of the largest buildings of its kind and date in Britain. It is very unusual to be able to see in one building the three rooms serving the three functions of a medieval guild; business and social in the Great Hall, charitable in the Undercroft and religious in the Chapel.
The Company Hall at the Merchant Taylors’ Hall has recently been dated using tree ring technology and celebrates its 600th Anniversary in 2015. The main timbers were felled in forests to the North of York between 1410-1413 and the Hall was completed in 1415 / 1416. Although mainly used as a meeting place for the Company to carry out its business, the Hall has in the past also been used as a school and theatre. It is now used to host a variety of events including weddings, dinners and conferences.
A big question for a little village website, you might think.
The Government claims to give you a choice. You want to have proper information to make that choice. Both sides try to bombard you with so-called facts and you sometimes end up feeling none the wiser. Occasionally one side or the other comes out with something truly outrageous.
But we’re not talking about the EU referendum. We are talking about the fracking debate, the result of which could have an even greater and more visible effect on our communities here than whether we are IN or OUT.
The first major decision will be taken by North Yorkshire County Council at its meeting on Friday and ending Monday! (see Slingsby Village website’s earlier post on this for more details). In spite of the overwhelming local objections to Third Energy’s fracking application at Kirby Misperton, officers have recommended that the Council should approve it, and the Government will be right behind them. If you are not already planning to go to Northallerton to comment, query or protest, you may be too late to influence that decision.
But whatever happens in the coming days, whether it be firing the starting gun on fracking or nipping the industrialisation of Ryedale in the bud, it will be just the start of a process.
The debate will continue and you will want to know more.
The Slingsby Village website has been heard to refer to itself as an independent news-oriented website. We steer clear of politics, on the whole. So if we were to give you a link to Frack Free Ryedale’s website, we would need to do the same for Third Energy (see further below)
We prefer, therefore, to point you to an independent website run by journalists specialising in the oil and gas field: https://drillordrop.com/
We hope you find it will be worth a moment of your time.
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On Friday 20th May North Yorkshire County Council is due to determine the planning application by Third Energy to frack at Kirby Misperton. The meeting will take place at 9.30 am in County Hall, Northallerton and is open to the public. We understand that the meeting is expected to continue on Monday 23rd May.
The officers’ report to Councillors has been published today and can be viewed on the NYCC website via this link. The report is 252 pages long, with the conclusion and recommendation in pages 247-252. Despite over 4,000 objections (and only 32 supporters), the report recommends that the application be approved subject to conditions.
At Ryedale, district councillors voted on 15 March to override their officers’ recommendation and come out against this fracking application. Important voices are already calling upon the county councillors, who have the final say, to act likewise, defy their officers and reflect the widespread local opposition by rejecting the application.
Anti-fracking campaigners are expected come out in force at County Hall on 20th May.
In view of the large number of people expected to attend the meeting, special arrangements have been put in place. The Council has advised that capacity in the main meeting room is likely to be taken up by people who have registered to speak on the application. Video relays will be provided to various additional meeting rooms in County Hall and an audio relay will be provided to the front of County Hall. No parking is available on the County Hall campus. Northallerton train station is across the road from County Hall.
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