Community Stadium

The Council are offering salaries of around £35,000 each for 3 managers who will supervise the procurement of the new Community Stadium at Monks Cross.

The Council is only advertising the posts internally at present rather than on their jobs web site*

The stadium now has planning permission but it is likely that the Council will try to let a design/build/manage contract which could mean that the building will not be ready for use until 2016.

The stadium will provide a home for the City’s Football and Rugby League clubs.

*NB. The Council’s job site rather famously now features job descriptions translated into Turkish, Polish and Chinese. A “welcome to York” video also features a Council official who left the Authority over 6 months ago.

The Police have issued this brief update regarding the number of collisions across North Yorkshire and the City of York.

There have been 18 incidents across the county where the severe weather has made driving conditions hazardous or has meant that roads have been blocked for short periods of time.

There was also a collision involving an articulated lorry which left the B1248 at Wharram, near Malton, at around 9.35am. The man driving the lorry suffered a back injury and was treated at the scene by paramedics.

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007/2013 Notification of the Precept Proposal for 2013/14 to the North Yorkshire Police and Crime Panel. – Office of Police and Crime Commissioner for North Yorkshire.

Jobs | Joseph Rowntree Foundation.

Some local jobs being advertised here.

Although York continues to escape the worst of the snowfall the met office has issued a warning about a band of heavy snow passing to the west near Leeds.

North Yorkshire weather cameras 0830 hours 21st Jan 2013

North Yorkshire weather cameras indicate that many roads are passable with care although conditions in the Harrogate area are deteriorating. Sutton Bank is reported to be closed.

A Council committee has been looking at the availability of child care including “baby sitting” in the City.

A lot of help and information is available on the web

Well fancy that!

Angela Smith, MP for Penistone and Stocksbridge has called on Sheffield City Council not to close Stocksbridge Leisure Centre. Stocksbridge is in the remote rural north of Sheffield and local people will not have the same access to alternatives that others in Sheffield might.

But there’s more. Cllr Wilson is also employed in Angela Smith’s office as, wait for it, press officer. So his job is to issue a press release calling on himself to change his own decision.

New Spurr Court lamppost

Residents are looking forward to the power supply being connected to a new lamppost in Spurr Court. The old street light was removed over 6 months ago!

Oldman Court salt bin filled

Meanwhile the bricks stored in the Oldman Court salt bin have found their way onto the verge!

Acomb Green development site

A new application seeking planning permission to erect a dwelling on the land currently occupied by garages near 42a The Green, Acomb has been submitted to the Council.

It is similar to the application which was submitted, then withdrawn, late last year.

It can be found here (insert Ref No: 12/03821/FUL)

A meeting on 29th January will hear Labour’s plans to hive off the Yorkcraft facility on Tadcaster Road.

It seems likely that it will become (another) “social enterprise” organisation in 2015.

The details of the plan are being kept confidential in line with the current Councils fixation with secrecy.

However it seems clear that the core Yorkcraft organisation will be retained with a hybrid system of specialist services such as gardening being developed.

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