We are very happy to report that a new 25 year lease has been agreed and signed this month between Slingsby Sports Club and the owners of the sportsfield, Castle Howard Estates.

This finally allows the Club to plan for the future and to apply for grants to improve facilities.

Fuller details will be in the next issue of The Triangle.

Membership of the Sports Club is only £5 per couple per year (£4 for over 60’s couples) and even less for singles. New members are very welcome and membership subscription time is from 1st June.

For further information contact Club Chairman Dave Calvert on 01653 628268

Congratulation to Rebecca and Damien on winning last night the Visit York Tourism Award 2016 in the category of Caravan Park/Holiday Village.

The list of winners is here, although the photo is from last year’s event.

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.