North Yorkshire Police will be carrying out mobile safety camera enforcement on the following roads between Wednesday 4 January 2012 and Tuesday 10 January 2012.

· A64 east-bound carriageway Bowbridge Farm Tadcaster

· A64 west-bound carriageway, Bowbridge Farm, Tadcaster

· Millfield Lane, Poppleton, York

· Beckfield Lane, York

· Green lane, Acomb, York

· Ryecroft Avenue, Acomb, York

· Temple Lane, Copmanthorpe, York

· A1036 Tadcaster Road, York

· A1237 Monks Cross, York

· North Lane, Huntington, York

· Strensall Road, Huntington, York

· Ox Carr Lane, Strensall, York

· A1237 Monks Cross, York

· The Village, Stockton-on-the-Forest, York

· A1036 Malton Road, York

· A1237 Monks Cross, York

· York Road, Haxby, York

· New Lane, Huntington, York

· Northfield Farm, Cobcroft Lane, Cridling Stubbs

· Skipwith Road, Escrick

· A63 Hemingbrough

· Church Lane, Wheldrake

The mobile safety cameras will be in operation at the above sites at various times during the dates stated. Cameras will not be in use on the above routes all day, every day.

We have seen an increase in the amount of graffiti over the last few weeks.

With CCTV now covering more of Acomb there is a fair chance that the culprits will be caught sooner or later.

In the meantime please use the “report a problem” links (right or above left) to let us know of any problems that you spot.

A routine report to the Councils “cabinet” on 10th January has revealed that the whole of the Lowfields school site might now be developed.

It had been assumed that the playing fields would be retained as a park with perhaps some allotments being provided in line with resident’s wishes. Development would have been restricted to the “footprint” of the former secondary school.

The school building site would have been sold to a private care provider.

Now the council is agonising about whether to run the care village itself and, if so, how it might fund the £6 million construction costs of the elderly persons accommodation included in the scheme.

They are to undertake “soft market” testing (a sort of trial tendering exercise) in January and February after inviting organisations like the Rowntrees Housing Trust to suggest ways in which the care village could be funded and managed. Rowntrees run the successful Hartrigg Oaks facility on the other side of the City.

It is expected now that a decision will be made in April on how to formally tender the Lowfields care village project. Completion of the accommodation is now scheduled for April 2014.

The same Council report confirmed their intention to close the other Council run elderly person’s homes in the City over the next 3 years. Windsor House is scheduled to close in April 2014, with residents likely to move straight into the new Lowfields care facility.