The European Parliament has revised the Directive governing the manufacture, presentation and sale of tobacco in a bid to deter young people from smoking.
This legislation, already informally agreed with EU health ministers, would require all tobacco packs to carry picture health warnings covering 65% of their surface.
Although the Council has cut back on the number of amenity skips it provides, several residents associations continue to run programmes aimed at making it easier for tenants to get rid of unwanted items.
The skips are only in place for a few minutes and residents must ensure that they put any rubbish into the skips and do not leave it on the path or highway.
1 Don Ave 08:30 09:30
2 North lane 10:30 11:30
3 Viking Rd 12:30 13:30
4 Kingsway West 08:30 09:30
5 Stuart Rd 10:30 11:30
6 Ebor St 12:30 13:30
7 Lindsey Ave 08:30 09:30
8 Bursall Drive 10:30 11:30
9 Windsor Garth 12:30 13:30
The York Council is to consider next week the first applications from community groups who want to be given the right to bid to buy what they regarded as community use buildings.
Fordlands EPH
The buildings being considered are the Crystal Palace pub in Holgate and the Fordland’s Elderly Persons Home in Fulford.
Government legislation now requires Councils to maintain a list of “assets of community value”.
The purpose behind these provisions is to ensure that property (land and building) assets which are currently used to the benefit of the local communities are not disposed of without the local community being given a fair opportunity to bid for these assets when they are put on the open market. This right is not simply to accommodate ‘public assets’ but also private assets, the test is whether such assets are viewed as ‘assets of community value’.
These assets therefore could be currently owned by the public, private or voluntary sector.
The nomination for the Crystal Palace pub comes from the cooperative that took over its running a few months ago. Their application is supported by officials.
The Fordland’s application comes from the Fulford Parish Council who want to run the building as an interpretation centre. It is redundant under the Councils elderly person’s modernisation plans. Officials are recommending that the building is not added to the list.
Admission to the list means that the community group will be able to submit a bid for the properties as and when they come onto the market. There is no guarantee that their bid will be the highest or that t would be accepted by the owners..
Some building owners have criticised the scheme as it potentially could delay, by up to 6 months, regeneration schemes .
A new website has been launched today where people can comment on the City of York Council’s bid to become a UNESCO City of Media Arts, at http://mediacityyork.com/
The Council plans on 20 March 2014, to submit a bid to become a UNESCO City of Media Arts and join the global Creative Cities Network.
City of York Council is hosting one of its regular Information Events for anyone interested in finding out more about adoption next week (Monday 3 March).
The information events, which are help jointly with North Yorkshire County Council and East Riding Council, provide an informal opportunity to anyone interested in adoption to find out more about what’s involved.
The next information session will be held at West Offices in York on Monday 3 March between 6.30 and 8.00pm. To book a place please call 01904 553525or email adoption@york.gov.uk
The #LendalBridge traffic trial survey closes at midnight. Remember you can have your say via the online survey at http://t.co/6o0DiBd99v …
— City of York Council (@CityofYork) February 26, 2014
When the formal trial finishes today the #LendalBridge restriction will remain in place until the evidence is taken to Cabinet in Spring
— City of York Council (@CityofYork) February 26, 2014
There is no item in the Councils forward programme of meeting topics so a decision before June is unlikely.
The latest figures on the Council web site show that most Park and Ride bus services are talking longer to complete their journeys. No data has been produced for other bus services.
No information on bus passenger numbers has been published although total passenger journeys in 2013 showed a further reduction on 2012.
The number of shoppers in the City centre has reduced
Other road users – particularly those living near the city centre – have found journey times doubling.
Meanwhile over 60,000 motorists have been fined on Lendal and Coppergate. Many of these have been visitors who have vowed never to return to the City.
Labour Councillors have now stepped up their campaign of misinformation.
They say that there were forecasts of gridlock. Few said this because (between 10:00am and 4:30pm) there is spare capacity on most of the highways network in York for most of the week.
Some predicted traffic chaos in some circumstances such as poor weather conditions. In a generally mild winter, they were proved right.
Labour have claimed that the LibDems included in their 2011 Local Transport Plan proposals to close Lendal bridge. Actually the reference was to a trial closure of Ouse Bridge (which has many more bus services using it and which does not form part of the ring road). But this would only have happened after proper consultation.
Labour claim that “traffic congestion will increase three fold in 10 years“.
But their transport spokesman made the same claims a decade ago and, of course, it hasn’t happened. Drivers have found different ways of getting to their destinations and at different times of the day.
They don’t rush lemming like to the nearest traffic jam.
Congestion levels in York have been fairly stable now since 1998.
It would be a strange Council that argued that “something has to be done“, then promptly decided on a course of action that actually makes things worse for the majority of travellers.
The proposals, which will be tabled at City of York Council’s budget meeting on Thursday, would see a new £500,000 community fund created for residents to spend locally plus extra investment to boost recycling and tackle climate change.
LibDem budget plan would eliminate poor road surfaces in York
The Lib Dem plans would see the controversial £3.3million ‘Reinvigorate York’ scheme – which funded the unpopular King’s Square revamp – cancelled and a reduction in funding on a new multi-million pound council IT project. Labour’s new £70,000-a-year ‘Head of Transformation’ would also face the axe and the number of Cabinet Members would be reduced.
Main Points of the Lib Dem amendment:
The Council says that it can save £30,000 if residents agree to receive their Council Tax bills by Email.
To sign up for e-billing, all residents have to do is have their last council tax bill to hand and go to the council’s website at http://www.york.gov.uk/ and
Investors in the Environment (iiE) are inviting businesses from York to an event to find out how they can become a more profitable and sustainable business.
Below are the enforcement locations for North Yorkshire Police’s mobile safety cameras for week commencing Wednesday 26 February 2014.
All safety camera locations are published on the force website along with an explanation of the various route types.
You can view the results of the safety camera enforcement activity on this web page Deployment and results. Up to date data for the previous week is uploaded every Tuesday and can be interrogated by route and date ranges.