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Update (19 July) on bunds project from Environment Agency

Please go to this website’s homepage, click on “Publications” and look for Environment Agency Update in “General”. Note that there are two pages.

Anne McIntosh MP and the bunds project

“It is a matter of great regret that the Pickering Pilot Project for flood defences has run into difficulty. I am determined that the project will proceed and indeed the “slow the flow” aspects are already underway.  But I can understand the anger and disappointment at the current obstacles causing delay to the part of [...]

Green Neighbourhood Challenge

For further information about how to respond to the Challenge, please go to the home page of the council website, click on “Publications” and in “Publications” look for Green Neighbourhood Challenge.

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A new electronic newsletter being launched by North Yorkshire County Council for the county’s residents. The monthly newsletter, North Yorkshire Now, will keep residents up to date with developments in the county council’s services and tell them what the council is doing and how to take part in consultations. North Yorkshire Now will be sent by [...]

Dog mess – reporting irresponsible dog owners

If a member of the public witnesses a dog owner failing to clean up after their dog,  they  can contact The Dog Warden Service at Ryedale District Council (01653 600666) and report the incident giving TIME, DATE and PLACE of the incident and, if they KNOW THE DOG OWNER, ALL RELEVANT  DETAILS.   The caller [...]

“Exclusively Pickering”

The “Exclusively Pickering” booklet was launched on 5 March 2011. The booklet at one and the same time promotes the town’s businesses and is a tribute to the enterprise of local traders.  A pdf version is available in the Publications section of this website. Go to Home Page, click on Publications and look for the [...]

Lidl in Pickering – further information (as at 19 April 2011)

From the county council. Regarding the lack of progress on the Lidl site the current position is as follows. Lidl commissioned an independent safety audit of their proposed junction design.  The safety audit identified a number of issues that needed to be addressed.  Lidl have addressed the majority of these but there are still 3 [...]

Pickering Town Walks

These take place every Monday from 25 April through to 31 October 2011.  Tickets are available from the Tourist Information Centre in The Ropery from where the walks begin.  The tickets cost £1.50. The walk takes approximately 90 minutes and is an initiative of the Pickering & District Civic Society – www.pickeringcivicsociety.btck.co.uk.

Wells Walk – update

Pickering “Walkers are Welcome” have taken the lead in applying to the county council to add to the Definitive Map the short section of ground that links the Public Right of  Way (leading from Porter’s Headland) with Wells Walk.  The owner of Wells Walk recently erected barriers – he was entirely within his rights to do [...]

Environment Agency press release re bunds project

Please go to “Publications” and once there look in “General”.