Latest Council Meeting Highlights and Draft Minutes- 18 March 2025
The highlights of the last meeting can be found here and the full draft minutes can be found from the link below. Note the minutes will remain 'draft' until signed off as a proper record at the next meeting.
Published: 31 March 2025
The Draft Meeting Minutes can be found here and you can find the meeting highlights below.
Annual Parish Meeting: Bishop Monkton Parish Council facilitates the Annual Parish Meeting and this year it’ll be on Wednesday 14th May at 19:30 at the Village Hall. The council is keen that residents know that it’s not an AGM of the council but a meeting for parishioners to give their ideas, hear what’s happening elsewhere in the village etc. More to come via the website as we get closer to the date.
Road & Traffic Concerns:
- Road Closures: Responding to residents’ concerns, the Parish Council will write to North Yorkshire County Council to ask that the ‘default’ position adopted by utilities etc, is not road closure but managed traffic. This will be especially relevant if roads are taken up to facilitate waste water from any future development.
- Large Vehicles in the village: A resident has raised a concern around large vehicles coming through the village and whether there is a potential to damage roads or bridges. We do have a 7.5t (Except for Access) weight limit from the junction of Hungate, St Johns and Boroughbridge Road (in that direction). We’ll be checking to see if HGV GPS systems avoid the village to ensure that large traffic is for access only and not a ‘through route’.
- Traffic Calming: We had an engineer do a site visit on the Hungate/Moor Road/Knaresborough Road crossroads to assess the suitability of it for changing from ‘Give Way’ to ‘Stop’ with subsequent white line re-provisioning. Unfortunately, the rules are quite prescriptive and the engineer assessed that it does not meet the criteria for change. We are however, still pursuing VAS systems and are waiting for the quote from NYCC on providing power to a mounting post.
A61 Bin: We had previously written to Harrogate Borough Council to have a bin placed on the A61 layby near the bus stop. This area has been cleaned by a resident for a long time given HBC declined to place a bin there. Now we’ve moved to a new County Council construct, we intend to revisit the request and hope that it will be viewed favourably this time.
Grant funding for projects: we continue to make progress on securing funding for our two largest projects at this point – the new play area and the Heritage Walk.