Autumn Edition 2016 The Newsletter for Residents of the Selby District

Bridge over troubled There’s Summit special in Selby waters: Tadcaster’s bridge takes shape (page 3)

Pathways to health: Joseph Walden tries out the ski simulator, while his brother and sisters take on the adventure new walking routes in the play; meanwhile, an aerial trek makes its way over the top of the indoor skatepark. district to help you get fit It’s here! Selby’s newest attraction, “It was tough, but once I’d got the hold of it once, but it didn’t matter,” (page 5) Summit Indoor Adventure, has been hang of it, it was brilliant fun. I did explained Harriet. “I was really scared entertaining the more adventurous need a bit of help at the start though”. at the top of the tall stepping stones among you over the summer Ten-year-old brother Alex loved the too, but all my friends cheered for months. With aerial trekking, BMX adventure climb, “It was awesome, I me and that made me brave so I track, ski simulator, adventure loved going through the tunnels the could get to the top.” Harriet was play, climbing walls and bowling, best.” Meanwhile twin sisters Rosie joined by her two-year-old sister, as well as two places to eat, there and Lucy favoured the skate ramp: Eloise, who loved the adventure play is something for everyone. Rosie explained, “It was really exciting area. Mum Jennifer was pleased with - the ramps are really big - but you go how the day went too, “The staff And the best bit - it’s all under one Shaping our future: roof, which makes it a perfect day out really fast and I had to try hard not to were great and the party was really get involved in decisions as the autumn weather kicks in. fall over!” well organised - it made it really easy for everyone to have fun. The about your area (page 9) But don’t just take our word for it… It’s also a great place for a birthday party, too. Harriet Clewley from North food selection was good too, which We asked the Waldens, a family of six Duffield celebrated her seventh kept children and adults happy”. from Riccall, to road test a day out at birthday with six friends on a ‘climb Check out the latest deals for the adventure centre. Twelve-year-old is produced jointly by Selby and dine’ package. “The leap of The Summit online: Joseph tried out the ski simulator, the District Council and North faith on the climbing wall was really www.summitindooradventure.co.uk. only one of its kind outside London: Yorkshire County Council, awesome - I only managed to grab to give you the information you need about your local services. Working together Creating a bypass fit for Selby’s future helps to minimise the cost of getting this information to you, and is part of a much bigger programme of work between our councils to deliver great value for money. We publish these twice a year, but you can keep up- to-date in lots of different ways. Follow us on Twitter (@ selbydc and @northyorkscc) or ‘like’ us on Facebook (facebook.com/selbydc and As Citizenlink went to press, the second phase of facebook.com/northyorkscc). reconstruction of the A63 Selby bypass was on See page 5 for a full list of course for completion. Full story back page. useful contact details. 02

Selby pilots national Leaders’ Leader brownfield development After an uncertain few months for business, it’s now Consistency in our approach to supporting business scheme more important than ever that we’re able to offer and working with others is important. At the District Selby District Council is taking part in a some stability for companies working and investing Council we faced a big change earlier in the summer, new national scheme to bring forward in our area. With this in mind, we continue to invest with the move of our chief executive, Mary Weastell, brownfield land for development. in things that will help companies consider the Selby into her new position as chief executive at York. So district as their business base. we’ve welcomed Janet Waggott, who is now working A new ‘brownfield register’ provides house builders with up-to-date Over the summer, the County Council has made in a joint position between Selby and Ryedale district information on all brownfield sites major improvements to the Selby bypass, a key councils. This will help districts to work together, and available for housing in the district. A infrastructure link in the district, in direct response alongside the County Council too, to focus on what brownfield site is land that has previously to comments raised by residents and businesses. really matters: and we know that supporting growth been developed. Meanwhile, the District Council has been supporting is a key issue for you and the people you work for. new big investment, such as Legal and General’s The register helps house builders identify plans to create around 400 new jobs at Sherburn, suitable sites quickly, speeding up the and has been working up plans for opening up new construction of new homes, which can business development land as part of the long-term help to meet new housing need in the PLAN Selby. district. It also allows people to draw attention to sites for listing; including Our district has a lot to offer businesses: our road derelict buildings and eyesores that and rail links to the rest of the country are first-class, could be redeveloped and that could and we have more affordable business space on attract new investment. offer compared to our big city neighbours. Sites that are listed as part of the register The district is also a great place to live, with top- Leader of North Leader of Selby are still subject to the usual planning rated primary and secondary schools and unspoilt Yorkshire County District Council, conditions and any planning application countryside; and that’s important for attracting the Council, Cllr Carl Les Cllr Mark Crane would still need to be submitted in the right staff. normal way. The new register is online via www.selby.gov.uk - this includes a list of Planning for sites with basic data and maps. our future Sherburn in Elmet upgrade Selby District Council has supported a community-led project in Sherburn to transform part of the village centre. The new look was unveiled earlier in the summer, after several weeks of work. The aim is to improve the look and feel of public space in the centre of the village, which has seen significant growth over PLAN Selby sets out a plan for sustainable recent years. long-term development to boost business growth and deliver the housing that’s needed.

This autumn you’ll have a chance to see how plans game. It means we can press ahead with delivering are shaping up for new housing and business the new development we need to support the right development across the Selby district. And there’s housing in the right place, and the business growth an opportunity to have your say, too, about the that will help deliver new jobs and opportunities. places where new development should take place. It also means we can protect other areas from Over the past couple of years, Selby District inappropriate development, which we know is a big Council has been working on a long-term planning issue for some communities. strategy. This has looked at how many new homes Now we’re going to ask for your opinion on the we need and how much business development is exact sites where this will take place. We’ve come required for our district between now and 2027. up with a list of places we think are suitable, but It considers issues such as local transport links we want to test our plans with residents, local and infrastructure. It’s a strategy built on lots of businesses and community organisations. We’ll be evidence about population and business needs, promoting this via our website and social media as and it’s been independently assessed. well as writing directly to some organisations. Look We’re one of the only councils in this area to have out for more details online over the coming weeks: agreed such a plan, which puts us ahead of the www.selby.gov.uk. The centre of Sherburn has been much enhanced by new landscaping works. Also online at www.selby.gov.uk and northyorks.gov.uk 03

People urged to Good progress on continue going Tadcaster Bridge repairs the extra mile for Tadcaster Five months on from the Christmas flooding, the York, North Yorkshire and East Riding Enterprise Partnership’s Growth Hub, How’s Business, has been back to Tadcaster. The Enterprise Partnership’s Vice Chair, David Kerfoot, and team were regular visitors to the area during the floods and wanted to see how businesses have been getting on since. David Kerfoot said: “One of the ways for us to continue to help was through one of our Popup Business cafés which provide free advice from local experts about being better at business.” The May event was held at the Everything Good Goes coffee shop - a new addition to Tadcaster, and attended by around 20 local businesses. As Citizenlink went to press, work was progressing So alongside the repair programme the County well on the repair of Tadcaster Bridge. Council submitted a planning application, which was Martin Marner from Tadcaster Animal Supplies on Commercial Street said: The 18th century grade two listed bridge partially due to be considered by Selby District Council early “The business is surviving and the little collapsed due to the force of flood water following in September, to widen and strengthen the bridge. footbridge has made a difference. heavy rains over the Christmas period. This plan would see the footpaths on the bridge With our larger products, people just widened and would increase the number of street The County Council put a temporary footbridge in aren’t carrying them over the bridge, lights from one to six. It would also strengthen the place in February to reconnect the two sides of the so we are offering to deliver, which is bridge to enable it to cope with higher river levels. town while repairs were carried out on the helping. Everybody is making an effort, main bridge. As work progresses on the repairs, regular updates which proves the resilience of Tadcaster It has been a long-standing aspiration of the County are posted on the County Council’s website, businesses - we will get there.” www.northyorks.gov.uk/tadcaster. Council and the people of Tadcaster to improve the Charlie Singh from Kirkgate Fisheries bridge to create better connections between the said: “We weren’t flooded, but obviously two sides of the town, which are separated by the with the bridge being down we’ve been River Wharfe. affected. It’s the passing trade that we’re missing. We just need to encourage Skills service funding people still to come to Tadcaster, we’re still open for business.” Businesses in the Selby district can take advantage In June, the Local Enterprise Partnership, of Leeds City Region Enterprise Partnership (LEP) whose role it is to help grow the funding that helps support companies looking to economy, donated £1.4 million towards grow their workforce. The LEP Skills Service helps North Yorkshire County Council’s small and medium-sized firms by identifying their reconstruction of Tadcaster Bridge. skills-based training needs to help them grow. More information is at One Selby business is already benefiting from the www.businessinspiredgrowth.com support: Just Paper Tubes LTD, a manufacturer of cardboard cores and postal tubes, supplies its cardboard cores to a range of blue-chip clients. Just Paper Tubes LTD is currently rolling out a plan which has enabled the company to recruit more to become the most advanced tube manufacturer staff and launch an apprenticeship programme. As a in the industry, and bosses were keen to undertake result of this growth, the business identified a skills training to ensure that the business continues to gap, and recognised the need to invest in training. offer the high quality and reliable service that it’s If you are interested in finding out more about known for. the Skills Service and the support businesses can The business has been delivering superior receive from the LEP, please visit cardboard cores and tubes for 25 years, but in the www.the-lep.com/skillsservice. Vice Chair David Kerfoot at the Popup last twelve months it has worked hard to grow, Business Café bringing businesses and experts together 04

The coming together We’re better off together of the assets and highways teams North Yorkshire County Council and Selby during the year has District Council have been working closely reduced rents and together over recent years to help share rates by over £5000 resources, drive through efficiencies and improve the way in which we deliver our services for you. In our area each council delivers different £ services, but for the same residents. So it makes saved in 2015/16 by a new joint arrangement with the County Council for was108,000 saved during the year by sense for us to do this together. We’ve called this programme of work Better Together, and office printers. This deal will deliver total amalgamating the finance functions of the savings of over over five years. it’s delivered some significant savings for us £90,000 two councils, which also supports a range both. This means we can run your services more of other joint working initiatives. efficiently and effectively in the long-term. For A new joint approach to delivering example, the District Council’s team that deals the computer system that helps us with housing repairs is now sharing the same organise our customer contacts has Selby District Council’s share delivered a saving in 2015/16 of work space as the County Council’s Highways of this was a £50,000 saving team. Here’s a summary of some of the savings during 2015/16, projected we achieved during the last financial year. to rise to £77,000 during the following financial year.

Selby district… a great place to do business Making payments One of Selby District Council’s big ambitions At the time of the investment announcement, for the long-term is to make the area a Leader of the District Council, Cllr Mark Crane, to your Council has great place to do business, and the Council added, “Our transport links, the availability of is proactively supporting new growth and affordable business space and the quality of life just got quicker investment opportunities. here in Yorkshire all contribute to the growth Our brand new online payment system has This isn’t something the District Council can potential of our area”. gone live, making it easier for you to make do alone, however, which is why it’s important To ensure the right support for business is in payments for a wide range of services. to work alongside organisations such as Local place, the District Council has set out a new The new system no longer requires you to hold Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs). economic development strategy. This includes an account or to log in to make payments. The Leeds City Region LEP has been involved in a number of practical actions the Council can You simply click on the website payment link, supporting a big investment at Sherburn, which take to help support new investment which, select the type of payment you wish to make, is set to create around 400 new jobs. Legal and ultimately, helps to open up new employment enter your account number and the amount General have agreed to manufacture new modular opportunities. The key growth sectors identified you wish to pay and will be taken to a payment homes there. This decision has been described by by this strategy include transport and logistics screen where you can enter your card details. the Leeds City Region LEP Chair, Roger Marsh, as and construction, based on the district’s offer to It’s that simple. demonstrating “the strength of the City Region’s business. In the longer-term there’s an ambition The updated payment system has been manufacturing workforce, and underlying our to develop more creative industries, agricultural streamlined and is… technology and the visitor economy. attractiveness to investors due to the district’s • user friendly and hassle-free making on- location at the heart of the UK.” line payments a quicker option; • convenient, allowing you to make Plan for new police station payments 24 hours a day, from any location with an internet connection; and at Selby’s civic centre • secure, to keep you safe online. The District Council is working with North The new system allows payments to be taken Yorkshire Police to develop a new police station for Business Rates, Council Tax, Housing at the Civic Centre on Doncaster Road, in Selby. Benefit over-payments, invoices and rent The plan will also see the existing car payments. To start making online payments parking capacity for all staff working please visit www.selby.gov.uk/payments. at the site increased. The move brings together important public services on a site Don’t forget about Direct Debit too: this already shared with the local hospital. means payments are made automatically, It will also save taxpayers’ money as both meaning you don’t have to worry about remembering. Just search for ‘Direct Debit’ organisations should make savings from the The police station move will support the police to project. The new police station would be “invest in people, not property”. on the District Council’s website - significantly cheaper to run than the existing www.selby.gov.uk. in easy reach of both members of the public and building, on Portholme Road, and the new station the partner organisations we frequently work could be opened by the middle of next year. with. It will also represent better value for money, Acting Deputy Chief Constable Paul Kennedy of ensuring we can invest in people, not property.” North Yorkshire Police said: “It puts our officers Also online at www.selby.gov.uk and northyorks.gov.uk 05 Helping to spark Contacts Selby District Council young business ideas www.selby.gov.uk 01757 705101 @selbydc The County Council’s Stronger Communities costs to a minimum so I can also www.facebook.com/selbydc programme helps communities to become more afford to live is difficult. Bright North Yorkshire County Council self-reliant and to meet low-level needs. Sparks is giving me the breathing www.northyorks.gov.uk 01609 780780 room I need to get firmly on One concern for communities in North Yorkshire @northyorkscc my feet. I currently do a lot of is young people leaving to study or find work. www.facebook.com/northyorkscc Stronger Communities is helping to fund the web design and development, Bright Sparks project by Tadcaster and Rural but would really like to pursue Police Community Interest Company to help young my passion in film making.” www.northyorkshire.police.uk entrepreneurs to try out their business idea in For details of Austin’s ventures, visit Non-emergency calls 101 their community. bluestackdigital.com or spitfireuav.com. Emergencies dial 999 Bright Sparks offers free business support, Stronger Communities has also provided seed Health mentoring and office space (and strong coffee!) funding for Selby Swans Gymnastics Academy, Non-emergency calls 111 to young businesses for up to six months from which opened recently and will resume after the Emergencies dial 999 premises at the Tadcaster Business Centre on holidays. Demand is high for classes, but the club Citizens’ Advice Bureau Bridge Street. is hoping to expand. Visit the club’s Facebook www.citizensadvice.org.uk 03444 111 444 page for more information. David Gluck, the CIC’s Executive Officer, said: Traveline “We launched Bright Sparks at a time of great Stronger Communities has provided funding for (independent advice about public transport difficulty for the town’s business community, outdoor furniture at Kelcbar Community Centre services) www.traveline.info but a key aspiration for the project is to show in Tadcaster so older residents can enjoy outdoor that Tadcaster is a great place to start and run a coffee mornings and boost their vitamin D levels Business support business.” when the sun shines, and Age UK will be rolling Leeds City Region Enterprise Partnership www.the-lep.com One of the first young entrepreneurs to make out its Connecting You project to help older use of Bright Sparks is Austin Blaylock. He says: people learn how to use new technology from York, North Yorkshire and East Riding “Being given the opportunity to work in my mobile phones to Skype. Enterprise Partnership own office space but also with the support of For more information about Stronger www.businessinspiredgrowth.com David Gluck and a business mentor through the Communities, contact Tom Jenkinson, Stronger Parish councils Bright Spark programme has come at a much- Communities delivery manager for Selby District For details of your parish council, needed time. Being self-employed, trying so on 01609 533808 or check www.selby.gov.uk hard on my own to grow a business and keep [email protected]. Give us your Partnership action to protect personal property A new scheme designed to help people protect working alongside community groups such as feedback their personal property has been launched in Neighbourhood Watch co-ordinators. the Selby area, with the support of Selby District “This is a practical way in which we can help We want to know what you think of Citizenlink. Council and partners. people to protect their property,” explained This is your newspaper about your local The Dot Peen property marking system enables Selby District Council’s Executive member with services, so it’s important to us that we include the police to etch a unique reference number responsibility for community safety, Cllr Chris the things that you want to know about. onto a range of items, which includes the Metcalfe. He added, “It’s important to stress, Please give us your feedback. You can email postcode of the owner. This acts as a deterrent however, that the Selby district remains one of us at [email protected] or to potential theft, and will also help to recover the safest parts of one of the safest counties in write to us at Communications, Civic Centre, stolen property if it’s found. Dot peen marking England: but it’s schemes like this that will help Doncaster Road, Selby YO8 9FT. involves using a tungsten carbide-tipped pin to to keep it that way; and that’s why the District Our research shows that most people indent an object with dots to create a visible, Council wanted to invest in this.” prefer to receive information about local permanent and unique number. services through publications such as The unique number will be entered onto the Citizenlink, but don’t forget that you can national Immobilise property register database, keep up to date with both Selby District vastly increasing the chances that it will be Council and North Yorkshire County Council reunited with its owner if it is lost or stolen. via their websites or social media. Dot peen machines can mark at a speed of www.selby.gov.uk two characters per second, to an accuracy of www.northyorks.gov.uk 0.006mm and can be used on steel, aluminium and plastic - everything from bikes and garden @selbydc @northyorkscc tools to PlayStations and laptop computers. www.facebook.com/SelbyDC This property marking is being led by Police www.facebook.com/northyorkscc Community Support Officers, who are Marking property at Flaxley Road allotments. 06 Return of the Tour? Pedal power This autumn we’ll find out if the Selby district has been successful in our bid to take part in the 2017 Tour de Yorkshire. The district has been part of each of the first two years of the event, which has attracted huge crowds into the area. In 2015, Selby town hosted a stage start and earlier this year race riders passed through our district on two of the three race days. The impact of the Tour on the region has been significant. Independent research shows the 2016 The annual Three Swans Sportive, which takes place each September, is one of the top-rated sportive races in race boosted the regional economy by nearly the country: find out more online via www.selbythreeswanssportive.org. £60m, with over 2m spectators lining the route. The Tour de Yorkshire has helped to raise the The Transpennine Trail cuts through the district It was watched by an audience of over 11m in profile of cycling in the Selby district, but it’s too, with a spur heading into the centre of York. 178 countries. The race is organised jointly by not the only cycling event that helps to attract This off-road, but maintained, route is ideal ASO and Welcome to Yorkshire; Chief Executive, visitors to our area. Each spring the Great Selby for cycling. Sir Gary Verity, described public support for the Bike Ride gives a chance for people to raise If you are a family or young person and you race as overwhelming, “The great people of the money for charity by taking on routes around don’t have access to a bike, this doesn’t mean county continued to support the race in their the district, and each autumn the Three Swans you cannot enjoy cycling in the district. There’s droves, spending 20 percent more than last year, Sportive - rated as one of the top sportive events now a Welcome to Yorkshire-supported Bike while TV viewing figures nearly doubled.” in the country - sets off from Selby Abbey. Library in Tadcaster. This offers the chance for Given the success of previous years, Selby District Selby Park is now home to a new Bike Hub; those without a bike to borrow one. Donations Council has bid for involvement in next year’s funded by Sport England and delivered by of old or unwanted bikes are always welcome race too. If we’re successful, the District and Cycle Yorkshire, an initiative led by Welcome to too: the Bike Library team will make them as County councils will again work closely with Yorkshire. The Selby Bike Hub is the only one of good as new. the race organisers to make it a success once its kind in North Yorkshire and is a focal point Find out more about all of these online: more. Involvement in the Tour supports the big for lots of different cycling activities, including www.selby.gov.uk/cycling-selby-district. ambitions of the District Council to make the informal support and advice to led rides and Selby district a great place to do business and cycle training. a great place to enjoy life, because it helps to promote the area regionally, nationally In the pool, you can turn up to and internationally. swim at your own pace - but if Fitness… you’d prefer a structured class there’s plenty to choose from. on your terms Aqua aerobics and Swimfit give you the chance to get active in the pool, which is a great way of giving yourself a comprehensive workout. In the studio, meanwhile, classes include traditional circuits, Boxercise, pilates and Sh’Bam - that’s a dance class that offers a great way of The 2016 Tour de Yorkshire passed through the exercising with others. district on two of its three race days, including And there are a range of Cawood and Tadcaster on day one, and both the classes using the special men’s and women’s races through Sherburn and The leisure centre boasts a 25m pool, alongside a indoor cycling facilities too, Monk Fryston on day two. range of the other fitness and fun activities. which have proved really Many of us will have over-indulged a bit this popular over recent months. summer - and why not, it’s been the holidays You don’t have to take part in a class to take after all. But that makes autumn an ideal time advantage of the centre’s first class facilities, to take a look at the fitness classes available at however. Membership will give you access to Selby Leisure Centre. This will do wonders to the pool, the full fitness suite with state-of-the- help keep both our bodies and our minds in art technology, and the relaxation suite which shape, as there’s plenty of evidence to show that includes a steam room and sauna. exercise can help with mental health as well as Find out more online, fitness too. www.selbyleisurecentre.org, So let’s take a look around and see what’s on or pop in to the Scott Road site. offer this autumn… Also online at www.selby.gov.uk and northyorks.gov.uk 07 Helping you put your best foot forward Swanning Around

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As part of our commitment to making Selby district a great place to enjoy life, we’re publishing details of things to see and do over the coming weeks. Contact your local leisure Get involved centre and keep an eye on the local media for more events. September October 3-10 September - Health and Wellbeing Week, 18 September - Tadcaster 10-mile 24-28 October - Half-term active holiday camps, a week of activity focusing on inspiring healthy running road race, after a 15-year break, Selby Leisure Village. Keep your children active lifestyles … take on the one-mile daily challenge! it’s back. Enter at www.resultsbase.net/ through the holidays at Selby Leisure Centre and email [email protected] event/3546 Summit indoor adventure, email [email protected] 4 September - Selby 3 Swans Cycle Sportive, end 30 September - Macmillan coffee For more information about activities at the the summer with the Selby Sportive. A flat and morning at Tadcaster and Selby leisure district’s leisure centres, go to friendly bike ride of 30 miles, 66 miles or 106 miles, centres and Summit Indoor Adventure, be Selby Leisure Centre enter at http://selbythreeswanssportive.org part of the nation’s largest coffee morning www.selbyleisurecentre.org Tadcaster Leisure Centre 12 September-5 December - Aspire Channel 30 September - Over-50s Forum activity www.wlct.org/selby/leisure-centres/tadcaster Swim, take part in this challenge swim event to day, email supportingdevelopment@ swim the channel as a team or one your own. www. selbydistrictavs.org.uk Summit Indoor Adventure aspirechannelswim.co.uk www.summitindooradventure.co.uk 08 Community library New school opens its doors plans progress Plans are progressing well for the transfer for the first time of Sherburn and Tadcaster libraries into Selby’s new school, Staynor Hall Community Primary development. The preference was for a new school. community ownership. Sherburn-in-Elmet Academy, was set to open its doors to pupils for The County Council then developed the scheme, Community Trust has received approval for the first time this month at the start of the new which was designed by Jacobs UK and built by its business plan to run Sherburn library academic year. Parkinsons Ltd. The County Council has met the cost from April 2017, and the group has now moved into detailed negotiations with The school offers 210 places plus a nursery and of equipping the school with everything it needed the County Council. Tadcaster Community addresses the need for additional school places to open in September, a further investment of Library is progressing well with its business arising from the Staynor Hall housing development. £245,000. plan and hopes to have submitted it by the Headteacher Gail Brown said: “The positive response York-based Ebor Academy Trust is operating the time you read this. school. Funding for the building included £4.6m to the new school has been amazing - we can’t wait Summer Reading Challenge from North Yorkshire County Council through its to get started. We are looking forward to being an Libraries have been busy with the annual Schools Capital Programme and a contribution from integral part of the family of schools in Selby.” Summer Reading Challenge, this year Staynor Hall house builder Persimmon. Admissions to the school are co-ordinated through called The Big Friendly Read. It started the County Council’s team at Jesmond House in In 2013, local schools and the community were in style with 119 children signing up Harrogate, in common with other schools in the consulted by the County Council on the future in the first three hours at Selby library area. More information about the school can be pattern of educational provision in Selby, given and continued apace. Nineteen young found at staynorhallschool.org. rising school numbers and proposed housing volunteers helped make the challenge a success across the district. Whether talking to children about the books they have read, helping to run activities, or handing out rainbow glasses and gold medals, they were all friendly and welcoming.

Picture shows: At the official handover of the school to Ebor Academy Trust are (from left), Richard Ludlow, chief executive of Ebor Academy Trust; Suzanne Firth, strategic planning manager, strategy and commissioning, children and young people’s service at North Yorkshire County Council; Chris McMackin, County Council lead for admissions and transport; Gail Brown, headteacher; and Andrew Dixon, County Council strategic planning officer.

Home library service Big investment in education in Sherburn Would you like books or audio books The County Council is currently making the biggest This involves the construction of nine new delivered to your door? The home investment in education facilities in Sherburn-in- classrooms, which will double the number of places library and information service works Elmet in recent years to meet the growing demand at the school, an increase of 210. The additional with volunteers to deliver books every for places. capacity is needed to meet increased demand for two weeks. You’ll get to know your Work is expected to be completed shortly to school places due to housing growth in Sherburn- volunteers and many readers enjoy a chat. extend and enhance the early years provision at in-Elmet. You may be eligible for the free home Athelstan Community Primary School in Sherburn- The expansion has been made possible by securing delivery if you are a carer or if ill health in-Elmet, with the creation of two new classrooms land adjacent to the school and will include or disability makes it difficult to visit the and a hall extension. creating a new vehicular access to the enlarged site library or carry books. We’ll visit you to learn your reading interests and then Then, in autumn, a further phase of development from Milford Road. choose books to suit you. If you prefer, will begin that, when finished in 2017, will The project will cost more than £5m and is you can arrange for a friend or relative complete the significant expansion of capacity and jointly funded by the county council and housing to collect and return your books. To find improvement of facilities. developers through their obligations to support out more, contact your local library. local infrastructure. Also online at www.selby.gov.uk and northyorks.gov.uk 09 Your plan, for your area Hub helping to The Community Engagement Forums (CEFs) new visitors to the make Selby safer in our district have their own ambitious town as it recovers community development plans in place to from the 2015 floods. Since the Selby Safer Hub initiative began serve the needs of the areas they cover. Each over a year ago, more than 36 medium and The Western Area high-risk cases have been resolved. CEF empowers people to make decisions CEF has directly on things that matter in their community. funded numerous The initiative brings together Selby District The Central CEF has led on a number of projects; for example, the Monk Fryston Council, North Yorkshire County Council projects, one of which was to refurbish the & Hillam Invigorate Club has received and North Yorkshire Police along with other children’s play area at Brayton Community funding to provide activities and support for partners to make Selby a safer place. Centre. The CEF managed to secure funding children. The club provides a platform for It aims to share information quickly to make for the project from a number of organisations youngsters aspiring to take part in the Duke sure there is an effective early response and provided some of the funding itself of Edinburgh Award and similar schemes. to safety concerns, before issues become to enable the project to be delivered. Why not get involved in your local CEF? It’s more serious or difficult to deal with. The Eastern CEF has assisted with a a fantastic opportunity to share your voice The project is changing the way police and local numerous projects, one which transformed and help your community. To find out more authorities work together day to day so that people an old abandoned petrol station in about the CEFs and meetings planned for most at risk and perpetrators are identified quickly. Hemingbrough into a memorial garden, the year ahead please visit www.selby.gov. In a survey of people involved with the hub, 91 which will now host community events and uk/community-engagement-forums-cefs. per cent felt arrangements within the hub had has transformed the look of the village. improved information sharing with partners and Southern CEF area has awarded a 96 per cent agreed the hub had improved working number of grants, which includes relationships with partner organisations. funding for restoration works to be The Selby Safer Hub is among the projects which carried out to Hambleton Village form the Better Together partnership (see page 4) Hall. The project will allow the between the District Council and the County Council, venue to continue to serve and which aims to improve the services offered by the provide a variety of events and two councils to the people of the Selby district while activities for its local residents. increasing efficiency by sharing staff and skills. The Tadcaster and Villages CEF has led projects which include funding for the upgrading and maintenance of the Selby Area Committee: Visit Tadcaster website. The website will play an important role in attracting local councillors, local issues How your district council makes All county councillors that represent divisions in Selby district sit on the Selby Area Committee, which decisions… Focus on the Executive enables local councillors to debate local issues. Both Selby District Council and North a decision affects more than one ward. The The committee works with the District Yorkshire County Council operate with District Council is required to publish details Council and other bodies to promote key an Executive decision making model - of key decisions on its website: www.selby. community issues such as safety, transport, this works a little bit like the cabinet in gov.uk. You can also look on the website education and economic development. It is government. The Executive on each council to read meeting agendas and minutes. also involved in local highways issues. has certain powers to make decisions, Recent examples of the type of issues Recently, Selby Area Committee has adopted whereas other decisions must go before the Executive has considered include the an innovative approach, taking an in-depth all councillors at a Council meeting. co-location of police staff into the civic look at a particular theme. The first area to be Selby’s Executive comprises five councillors, centre, as part of the District Council’s considered has been infrastructure, including including the Leader and Deputy Leader work with the police to make better use discussions around economic development of the Council. Each councillor has a of public sector assets in the area; and the and housing development and the impact on portfolio covering different services authority’s Council Tax support scheme. schools, GP surgeries and transport, the need for a cohesive approach to planning and for and areas of business for which they are Over the previous twelve months the responsible. The Executive meets in public close working between the authorities involved Executive has commissioned a new in development and infrastructure provision. on the first Thursday of each month. approach to how the Council supports Whilst Full Council meets to set the overall business growth, supported funds for the All area committee meetings are open to the public. budget and policy direction of the Council, new leisure village and for the Council’s Forthcoming Selby area committee meetings will the Executive has a mandate to make a range involvement in the Tour de Yorkshire, and be held on 19 September, 28 November and 27 of key decisions - these are decisions where invested in new on-line payment systems, March. Further details and agendas are published there is a financial impact (either a saving which help to deliver a better service for in the “about the council” section of the County or spending) of £150,000 or more, or where customers and long-term efficiencies. 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Other councils Social care workers honoured to follow North Social care workers in Selby who provided residents and making a huge difference throughout outstanding support to residents when a residential the process of moving them to a new home. Yorkshire lead for home closed were thanked in North Yorkshire It was one of ten awards based on the votes of looked-after children County Council’s Health and Adult Services Staff users of the services and of staff, and Cllr Clare Councils across the country are Excellence Awards. Wood, Executive Member for Health and Adult being urged to adopt North The awards, for frontline staff who work above Services, said: “North Yorkshire has brilliant people Yorkshire County Council’s ground- and beyond the call in their line of duty and make working in adult social care and public health who breaking programme for looked- a real difference to the lives of the county’s most are totally dedicated, motivated and professional. after children and young people. vulnerable people, took place at the Galtres Centre It’s one of the main reasons why these services are in Easingwold. so appreciated and highly-valued. Sir Martin Narey, former director general of prisons for England and Wales and Julia Richardson, team manager, and Verity Heslop- “North Yorkshire continues to invest in improving former chief executive of Barnardos, has Mullens, social care co-ordinator in the Selby East adult social care services, but we could not said that the programme, No Wrong Assessment Team, won the Front Line - Dignity achieve excellent services without the outstanding Door, stands out for the ambition, and Respect award for actively working with the contribution of our staff.” innovation and high expectation in the support it offers to the most troubled and challenging young people. His recommendation comes in a report called Residential Care in England, which was commissioned by former Prime Minister David Cameron. No Wrong Door is designed to break the traditional cycle of young people who enter the care system in their teenage years following a path of multiple fostering placements, insufficiently planned periods in residential care and placement breakdown. Such a cycle runs the risk of young people becoming increasingly vulnerable, developing offending behaviour and frequently going missing. No Wrong Door replaces traditional council-run care homes with hubs that From left, Anne-Marie Lubanski, assistant director of Health and Adult Services; awards presenter Pauline Reeve, the combine residential care with fostering. award winners Verity Heslop-Mullins and Julia Richardson and BBC Radio York presenter Elly Fiorentini. North Yorkshire has two hubs, one in Scarborough to serve the east of the county and one in Harrogate to serve Giving older people a Lifeline this autumn the west. As nights draw in it’s time to think about how to best the care team, depending on the support package Sir Martin said: “It is the sense of support elderly friends and relatives. If your elderly you have. A doctor or ambulance will be called ambition and high expectations parents, grandparents, friends or neighbours live on immediately in all medical emergencies. which this very clever and their own, there are some practical things you can Find out more via www.selby.gov.uk/lifeline or by sophisticated programme has do to help over the coming months. calling 01757 705101. for the most challenging children Home and garden maintenance is really important which is so special. The flexibility of at this time of year - to make sure there’s enough the provision is very effective.” outside light, for example, or to clear leaves and Sir Martin said No Wrong Door would twigs from garden paths to prevent falls. attract interest from other authorities Many older people will be invited to have a flu jab because of its proven effectiveness. It too, as part of a national NHS campaign. These jabs also delivers an improvement in services can take place at the GP surgery or local pharmacy; while saving money – avoiding the high could you help by offering a lift? costs of placement breakdown and The District Council’s Lifeline service can also help preventing young people’s descent into to give peace of mind that your loved ones are well the expensive criminal justice system. looked after over autumn and winter. This is an alarm The Department for Education system connected to the phone, activated through a has already backed Sir Martin’s wearable pendant. If help is needed, a simple press evaluation and has stated its of the pendant button will send an alarm to a 24- intention to roll out the No Wrong hour monitoring centre. They will make contact with Support staff are on hand to help, as part of the District Door model to other authorities. a key person - that could be you, a friend, or one of Council’s Lifeline service. Also online at www.selby.gov.uk and northyorks.gov.uk 011

£1m strengthening of Cawood Bridge moves closer Approval in principle has been given to a £1m scheme to strengthen Cawood Bridge to increase its capacity from 7.5 tonnes to 10 tonnes. A recent assessment showed work was needed to maintain the 7.5-tonne capacity, so the decision to further strengthen it at the same time to achieve a 10-tonne capacity was a logical one. Major strengthening took place in 1986 and a weight limit of 7.5 tonnes was placed on the bridge with an exemption for public service vehicles weighing less than nine tonnes. This arrangement continued until it was established Foster a teenager that Department for Transport guidance meant an exception could not be made for buses. - and help to turn a life around Recent assessment has shown that 10-tonne capacity, which would allow certain larger buses to use the bridge again, can be achieved. Fostering North Yorkshire (FNY) is appealing services for autism and speech and language, The county council has been talking to local for people who might have what it takes where necessary. people and is looking at every opportunity to to become a foster carer and provide a Fiona Burks started as a carer with FNY over minimise the duration of the work and retain as home for a young person who can no 10 years ago. She says that while there are much access as possible over the bridge for as longer stay with their birth family. some challenges when looking after teenagers long as possible. The work is estimated to take At any time, FNY looks after up to 340 there are also huge rewards: “Fostering 20 weeks. The county council is considering children across the county. Many are teenagers is hard work, but it’s also been the best time to do the work after local people teenagers, who can’t stay with their birth great fun. It has been so rewarding to have suggested as much as possible be done over families for a number of reasons, usually some positive input in those influential years, school holidays and in spring/summer months. not of the young person’s making. and with teenagers you see the results so A final decision will be made after the traffic FNY is committed to ensuring that the young much quicker than with a small child.” regulation order is advertised in the local press, people it looks after can stay in their local Being a foster carer is an important and taking consideration of any objections. communities whenever possible, so FNY rewarding job, helping to develop positive foster carers can be confident they will not experiences and skills that have sometimes been New online support be taking teenagers from outside of the missed out on earlier in life. Fostering brings county. FNY foster carers come from many with it a generous tax-free allowance for each Did you know that you can tell the District backgrounds, but one thing they have in child and, while this is not the main motivation Council about a whole range of things via common is a desire to make a difference to for most foster carers, it is a consideration www.selby.gov.uk? This includes reporting the lives of the young people they foster. as additional income can be welcome. dog fouling or a missed bin collection, for example. This is part of the Council’s new ‘Tell Foster carers are given the best training available; For more information, call 01609 534654 or visit Us’ tab on the website homepage, which has support from a dedicated fostering social worker; www.northyorks.gov.uk/fostering. been introduced alongside an ‘apply’ tab. access to professional experts and specialist Using ‘apply’ you can do a range of things, from asking for a new recycling box to applying Action on weight for business rates relief. The Council wants to support you in doing more online, which is why North Yorkshire County Council’s public health there’s been a big investment in the website, team has commissioned Selby District Council including our electronic payment system (see to pilot a free 12-week tier 2 lifestyle weight page 4). The County Council’s website, www. management programme for people aged 18 and northyorks.gov.uk, allows you to report a range over with a body mass index of 25 and above. Tier of issues and apply and pay for many services. 2 is a targeted programme for those who have significant weight problems, causing potentially At the heart of our serious health problems. community Selby’s Move It Lose It programme includes Alongside more support to do things online, nutritional information, advice and physical activity. we know some people need face-to-face Since its launch in May 2015, it has seen 1,289 support, so the District and County councils participants lose a combined total of 816 stone! are working to develop ‘community hubs’ in For more information, including eligibility, call Sherburn, Tadcaster and Selby. The aim is to 01942 488481 or email [email protected]. develop these around libraries and to provide a central point for support on a range of issues. 12012 Don’t miss Creating a bypass fit for your chance Selby’s future to vote The roads your drive on, the schools your children go to, the social care services you or your family access: these are all things run by North Yorkshire County Council and next year you’ll have a chance to have your say about who runs them. North Yorkshire County Council elections take place in 2017, although all of your election As Citizenlink went to press, the a bypass fit for purpose to support Road to A1238 Leeds Road. material will come from Selby second phase of reconstruction the town’s economic future. The second phase will cost £2.8m. District Council. That’s because of the A63 Selby bypass was on This is the second phase of a Phase one cost £2.4m. The cost of the District Council has legal course for completion. three-phase project that involves the latest phase is higher because it responsibility for administering Work was on schedule for deep repair and reinstatement of includes repairs to the roundabouts all types of elections, not just for completion in early September, with the carriageway. Phase two covers and three bridge decks as well their own councillors. Recently the contractor making good use the stretch of the A63 between as the road. Discussions about that’s included the Police and of the option for 24-hour working and including the A19 Brayton and responsibility for funding the Crime Commissioner election and to keep the project on track. A1041 Wishing Well roundabouts. repairs are going on between the the EU referendum, for example. Local people campaigned for these Phase one, from the A1041 Bawtry County Council and Highways You need to be on the electoral repairs for several years, and the Road to the A19 at Barlby, was England, which was responsible, register to be able to have investment in this latest phase is a completed last year. The third through its contractor Skanska, for your say. The District Council big step towards ensuring Selby has phase will cover the A19 Doncaster the original construction. is carrying out the ‘annual canvass’, to ensure the details on the electoral register for each North Yorkshire’s rural roads get summer lift household are correct - this is something councils across the The County Council will this month The £44m is made up of £20m of Our additional funding for roads is country have to do to keep complete its largest roads surface the County Council’s own money about vital support for economic records up-to-date. But if your dressing programme ever. and £24m from an innovative growth, supporting business and details change at any point - you North Yorkshire is England’s joint capital bid with East Riding keeping communities and the move house for example - then largest authority and its 9,000km to the Local Growth Fund, linking economy on the move,” said Cllr you’ll need to let us know. That’s road network connects towns and the maintenance of the rural road Don Mackenzie, North Yorkshire’s really easy to do online via villages across vast rural areas. Its network with economic growth. This Executive Member for Highways. www.gov.uk/register-to-vote. was the first bid nationally to a Local beauty attracts visitors from all over “Surface dressing also helps to There’s more information about Growth Fund for capital funding for the world and maintaining roads fit keep roads safe. It improves skid elections on www.selby.gov.uk/ road maintenance. for purpose for tourism, business resistance, particularly in wet elections and and residents is a top priority. North Yorkshire has a much higher conditions. In more urban, densely www.aboutmyvote.co.uk too. Indeed, North Yorkshire is increasing percentage of rural roads than most populated areas and on estate roads its spending on preventative road areas. They account for almost we are also now using a system maintenance, bucking the trend 75 per cent of the county’s road called lock-chip, which binds the nationally, to bring down the cost of network, compared to 29 per cent in chippings to improve safety. reactive patching and pothole repair. a typical local authority. “In addition, we aim to complete By the end of August, the County Many of these roads are basically this programme every year Council, in partnership with its tracks that have been continually before autumn when the contractor Ringway, will have surfaced over many generations. weather deteriorates, which surface dressed 3.4 million square The bituminous macadam from minimises costs and improves metres of road, a process which which they are mainly constructed the life of the material.” combines bitumen with chippings. needs to remain flexible otherwise they become brittle, crack, allow The County Council spends £65m water in to the foundations and a year on road maintenance create potholes. Surface dressing but from 2014 through to 2021 Selby District Council has allows them to remain flexible and of road managed by the County will have spent an additional Council in North Yorkshire responsibility for running waterproof and last for years. £44m to bring more of the elections, including the recent road network up to scratch, “Surface dressing is vital to keep EU referendum ballot. particularly across rural areas. our roads fit for purpose and to extend their life in good condition.