Please click here to find Weaverthorpe Parish Council Minutes 26.03.12
High-speed broadband in the Great Wold Valley
6 March, 2012 By 2 Comments
If you would like to hear more of the advantages that high-speed broadband can bring to homes and businesses then come along to Weaverthorpe Village Hall at 7.30pm on Thursday 29th March 2012 when the Steering Group for the Community Broadband Project is meeting. This is not a commercial sales pitch but a bid to bring some of the benefits enjoyed by urban residents to our rural valley; this is a community-led project to obtain government funding allocated to rural development. So whether your children are into on-line gaming or course work, whether you want to ‘Skype’ with friends and relatives, whether you use Tesco or Asda.com, or download films, music or e-books, whether you need to complete government returns on-line, whether you would like to use your mobile ‘phone at home, whether your business needs to interact with remote servers or upload large files – whatever your communication needs now and in the future, come and find out more, completely without commitment. We look forward to meeting you then!
Karl Tumman (karltumman@pinfold-bc.com)
Vacancies, Luttons Parish Council
13 February, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Owing to the resignation of Joe Lacy from the Council, there now exist two vacancies. If anyone is interested in joining the Council and helping to shape the future of the Parish, then we would be pleased to hear from you. The Council is particularly concerned to redress the under-representation of East Lutton and the farming community on the present Council. Please contact the Clerk on 01944 738520 for informal discussion and to express your interest.
John Wane, Chair
Luttons Parish Council
Minutes of Weaverthorpe Parish Council –
30 January, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Please click here to find Weaverthorpe Parish Council Minutes – 16.01.12
Minutes of Luttons Parish Council – 17 Jan 2012
30 January, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Please click here to find the Luttons Parish Council Minutes 17 January 2012
High Speed Broadband Project – please complete questionnaire
21 January, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Whether it be for gaming, distance learning, business, on-line submissions to government agencies, or entertainment, the communities in the Great Wold Valley (Wharram to Foxholes) and Thixendale have the opportunity to access government funding to bring highspeed broadband into the valley – but only if we can demonstrate a demand for it. If you believe that a reliable, highspeed broadband (>10Mbps upload and download) could benefit you, your family or your business (regardless of how far you are from a telephone exchange), then please take a few minutes to complete the brief questionnaire on line by clicking here Questionnaire for completion . Once you have downloaded the document, save it on your computer and then e-mail to the website address, which is luttonsandweaverthorpewebsite@hotmail.co.uk
If you prefer a paper copy, one will be enclosed with the next issue of the Warbler.
Once completed and sent in either the electronic or paper questionnaire will be accepted as an ‘expression of interest’, without any commitment, that will allow an assessment of the possible take-up if the project goes ahead.
More information about the Project can be found by clicking here NYCC Connecting North Yorkshire
Luttons Parish Council Meeting – Tues 17 Jan @7pm in School Hall, West Lutton
13 January, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Luttons Parish Council
NOTICE is hereby given that the next meeting of LUTTONS PARISH COUNCIL will be held in the SCHOOL HALL, BACK LANE, WEST LUTTON on:
Tuesday, 17th January at 7.00pm
Please note the venue
All Members of the said Council are hereby summoned and required to attend to transact the business listed below. The public are welcome to attend.
Ordinary Meeting of Luttons Parish Council
Agenda
1. To receive Apologies for Absence
2. Declaration of Interests relating to this agenda
3. To approve the Minutes of the Ordinary Meeting held on 15th November 2011
4. To address matters arising from the Minutes, not otherwise on this agenda
5. To receive verbal reports from the Clerk on projects
5.1 Revised bus service to the valley
5.2 Winter precautions
5.3 ‘Connecting North Yorkshire’: High Speed Broadband
5.4 Clearance of Gypsey Race, West Lutton
6. To receive detail of appropriate correspondence, including consultations
7. To consider the adoption of standing orders and financial regulations
8. To approve the job description and person specification for the position of Clerk to the Parish Council, and to approve arrangements for the recruitment of a new Clerk
9. Planning applications
9.1 To note recent determinations by RDC
9.2 To note responses to new consultations from RDC
10. Finance: to receive a statement of income and expenditure for year-to-date
11. To receive any other business
12 . To confirm the date and venue of the next scheduled meeting (13 March 2012)
Cllr Andy Macdonald, Clerk
10 January 2012
High-speed broadband in the Great Wold Valley
9 January, 2012 By Leave a Comment
A well-attended meeting on 16th November heard of the potential to bring high-speed broadband into the valley using the NYCC network and wireless technology. RDC and NYCC staff described how a community project might be established to attract government grant funding for rural broadband, as well as the technology thatcould deliver to subscribers consistentlyhigher speeds in both upload and downloadthan is available through national providers and the BT infrastructure. The meeting also heard from a representative of Newton Rawcliffe where a community project is live and delivering broadband where none was available before.
Those at the meeting expressed their interest inexploring the potential furtherand several individuals cameforward to join a steering group. This group will meet shortly, withthe support of RDC and NYCC staff, to continue to develop the project and seek further expressions of interest from both residents and businesses in the valley.
The project area is either side of a line from Thixendale to Foxholes but a project willonly be viable if there is sufficient interest.
If you are interested, without commitment at this early stage, in benefiting from highspeed broadband then please complete the expression of interest at https://eforms.northyorks.gov.uk/AF/an/default.aspx/RenderForm/F.Name=pJCY5jESfET or complete a form (call 01944 738520).
Further information on the project can be obtained from the NYCC website by following this link – High Speed Broadband.
Andy Macdonald
The Great Wold Valley Heritage Trail
9 January, 2012 By Leave a Comment
This project has developed from the findings of the Luttons and Weaverthorpe Parish Plan which was carried out in 2008 and is a response to the communities’ desire for greater information about their environment.
The heritage of the Great Wolds Valley, from Neolithic to Modern times, will be celebrated by the creation of a series of information boards located in villages from Wharram to Foxholes. As well as history and archaeology there will be sections on geology, flora and fauna plus maps, old and new, detailing the area.
In addition to the boards a pamphlet will be produced to promote the Heritage Trail through Tourist Information Centres. To encourage involvement with, and understanding of, the local heritage a teaching package will also be developed for use in the local primary schools.
We will be holding open days in the near future to enable people to come along and comment on the content of the boards and provide their contributions to the history of the area. We would like as many as possible to take part in this project as local knowledge is vital to the success of the Trail.
We have obtained grants from LEADER and the Heritage Lottery Fund to finance the project and hope that it will be completed in 2012.
Contact: Andy Macdonald 01944 738520
Broad Band Matters – No 1
9 January, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Please click here to find the first edition of Broad Band Matters. The newsletter sets out to keep you up to date with the High Speed Broad Band Project currently running along the valley and to Thixendale.
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