Following the release of a damning report into North Yorkshire Police performance, Lib Dem councillors have called on the Conservative Commissioner to accept responsibility for the failings and consider her position.
Local councillors have welcomed the news that Dringhouses library has opened with a new heating system in place.
Main construction work on a new £5.3m Clifton Library will start this April, as City of York Council confirmed that Walter Thompson, a Northallerton based firm, have been contracted to build the project.
Reacting to the spring budget announcement delivered by the Chancellor today, Council Leader Keith Aspden has hit out at lack of action on cutting skyrocketing energy bills and only providing ‘sticking plaster solutions’.
Councillors have welcomed the approval of longer-term contracts for three bus services which were at risk of being axed from the 1st April. The Council has stepped in to secure 2 year subsidised contracts for the number 12, 13 and 412 services.
Liberal Democrat councillors are calling for the Chancellor to commit long term funding for road repairs in this year’s budget, as new analysis finds that it would take £12 billion to tackle current national local roads repair backlog.
First York have confirmed that Hospital Bus (HSB) Park & Ride service, which connects Rawcliffe Bar Park & Ride and York Hospital, will no longer operate from 1 April, when the current contract ends.
Local councillors have secured the planting of trees on Vangarde Shopping Park to add to the thousands of trees planted across the city over the last 4 years.
Three Liberal Democrat councillors, Councillors Sue Hunter, James Barker and Keith Aspden, have thanked local communities, following their decision not to stand for re-election in May 2023.
