The action is without precedent in a City which has always prided itself on having the best schools in the country.
Ofsted report Oct 2015
Both staff and governors are criticised in the report.
Recently a temporary head was appointed to run the school
No response from the York Council has yet been published.
North Yorkshire Police’s Alternate campaign asks people to think carefully about the effects of their drinking, with a series of hard-hitting videos showing the risks and unintended consequences of drinking too much.
The five films were premièred in Selby in September 2015, shown on a large video van at the town’s Market Cross. Posters and credit-card sized ‘app cards’ featuring links to web content were distributed at licensed premises across the town.
All the films are also available to watch on North Yorkshire Police’s YouTube channel, http://tinyurl.com/alternatevid, and on a new website www.alternatedrinking.org. They were most recently used to promote national Alcohol Awareness Week 2015, which ran from Monday 16 November.
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Fortunately the victim did not require hospital treatment but has been left distressed by the incident.
Officers are appealing for information about the assault and are urging anyone who witnessed the incident to come forward.
In particular, they are appealing for information about a white man aged 19 to 20-years-old, about 6ft tall of medium build with short curly ginger hair. The man was wearing a black hoody and blue or black trousers and was seen to by riding a blue BMX bicycle.
Anyone with information that could assist the investigation should contact police on 101, select option 2, and ask for Constable James Mills. You can also email james.mills@northyorkshire.pnn.police.uk
Please quote North Yorkshire Police reference number 12150209471.
If you wish to remain anonymous, you can pass information to Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.
Police can confirm that CCTV images of a man, taken at 12.47am Friday 20 November, have been positively identified as Rory Johnson by his family.
Police are following all lines of enquiry and underwater searches have resumed today (Thursday 26 November) by the Yorkshire and Humber Regional Underwater Search Team based at Humberside Police.
Police are continuing to appeal to anyone who recalls seeing Rory or someone matching his description in York on Thursday evening or Friday to contact them.
Rory is white, aged 29, 5ft 11in tall, slim build, with short blond hair. He was wearing a round-neck black top, blue jeans and white and navy trainers.
Anyone who can help is urged to call North Yorkshire Police on 101, select option 1, and speak to the Force Control Room. Please quote reference number 12150207141.
Red Tower
The Red Tower Restoration Project, led by grassroots network The Incredible Movement (TIM) in York in partnership with City of York Council, applied to the Department for Communities and Local Government’s Community Ownership and Management of Assets (COMA) programme. The aim is to acquire the Red Tower on a long lease from the city’s council through a ‘community asset transfer’.
TIM wishes to open the long-unused building for the local community and visitors to enjoy a range of activities centred on food. The refurbished building will incorporate a community kitchen, café, growing space and general community space resulting in an increase in provision in this area of the city.
Activities have been taking place throughout the year, including a successful opening at York Residents First weekend, Heritage Open Day and a regular pay-as-you-feel café on Saturdays throughout the summer.
This has resulted in over 1,000 people enjoying the building and discovering its potential. Visitors have ranged from local residents to international visitors. Many children have also regularly visited the building, thrilled by its unique character and a chance to discover history at first hand. Further events will take place at the Red Tower over the winter.
Work on this stage of the project will commence immediately, and by next spring, the group will know if it is feasible to bring the building back into use, and how that could happen. It is hoped that further funds will be raised to fully bring the building back into use. (more…)
The proposed hours – to be discussed at a planning committee meeting taking place on 3rd December – will be
Originally the store had asked to open between 07:00 and 2200 every day but this has now been reduced for Sundays and Bank Holidays.
Currently Sunday trading laws allow a large retail unit to open no earlier than 10.00 and ending no later than 18.00 for a continuous period of 6 hours. Granting planning permission for the proposed hours does not override Sunday Trading Legislation. The stores agent has confirmed that the proposed Sunday opening hours are speculative and is in response to the Government announcing (July 2015 Budget) potential revisions to Sunday trading hours.
Only one objection to the plan was received.
Officials are also recommending approval of an application to build 9 dwellings on Lland lying between Beckfield Lane and Runswick Avenue. The report can be read by clicking here
Beckfield Lane/Runswick Avenue click to access
The proposed development contains a mix of house types consisting of four houses which are two storeys in height and contain three bedrooms, two houses containing three bedrooms which are two and a half storey in height (rooms in the roof space), two bungalows containing two bedrooms, and one bungalow containing three bedrooms. All dwellings proposed are semi-detached with the exception of the three bedroom bungalow which is detached. The majority of dwellings contain two car parking spaces and one visitor space is provided.
This application attracted 28 letters of objection (and three of support)
Other applications being considered at the same meeting include (click to access):
Sanderson House community centre
The centres affected are located in Foxwood, Chapelfields, Bell Farm and Heworth.
A fifth – the Burton Stone Centre – was to have been sold off to a third party operator but this has fallen through. It continues – at least for the moment – to be run by Council employees, but without a volunteer user committee.
The Community Centres running cost grants (which totalled £140,000 in 2013) were stopped last year by the then Labour run Council.
It had been hoped that the new Council, having made £70,000 available to support the centres when it met in July, would allow for the reinstatement of some caretaker roles.
In turn this would have allowed the centres – which otherwise depend entirely on volunteers – to increase their opening hours.
A report to a meeting taking place next week offers three choices for the use of the funding. They are:
Option (c) would reinstate only a £4000 a year grant to each of the five centres. See below for details
The rest would be syphoned off to pay for maintenance work at the buildings which are still owned by the Council. As landlord the Council would be responsible for these repairs anyway.
There is a suggestion that an “apprentice” be appointed – at a cost of £10,000 – to monitor the project.
Some people already feel that there has been too much interfering by Council officials in the work of the voluntary committees which work tirelessly to run the centres. Officials seem to want to weigh volunteers down with “service level agreements” and commitments which are simply too onerous for spare time volunteers to feel comfortable with.
We hope that “no strings” grants of at least £20,000 a year can be agreed for each centre. To allow for forward planning they should be guaranteed for the duration of at least the present Council (i.e. until 2019)
A decision on the grants will be taken at a meeting on Thursday, 3rd December, 2015 4.30 pm at West Offices. Residents may make written representations to the meeting and/or may register to attend in person and speak. (Telephone – (01904) 552062 Email laura.bootland@york.gov.uk)
