Autumn 2020 newsletter

Since our Summer Newsletter, there Your Town Council remains active From the Mayor have been positive developments and has played its part in ’s This autumn Covid-19 remains a daily in the local, district and national coronavirus response. Switching to source of anxiety and inconvenience, response to the virus. Public online meetings has enabled more as well as a threat to livelihoods. health officials have a more up to residents to hear debates and have It is difficult to stay optimistic, and date and precise understanding their say. We have reorganised to our thoughts are with those who of its spread. Council is try and listen to community needs have lost loved ones. I hope Ilkley working closely with Public Health more closely and respond to the can reflect with pride on everything and key local partners to climate emergency more vigorously. we have achieved as a community deliver a co-ordinated response. Councillors and staff are identifying so far and find new strength to Local GP surgeries have been open and initiating new projects, working make the best of the months ahead. throughout, caring safely for local alongside some wonderful partners. We will continue to take individual patients and now providing flu With limited resources, we can only responsibility for the collective vaccinations to those that need be effective as a Town Council if welfare and safety of everybody them. Our businesses have continued we find out what local people care by understanding and respecting to serve us safely, investing and about, and work alongside you to the isolation and social distancing training to become Covid-secure. make a difference. I hope that you rules, wearing face coverings and Local organisations have found new will find these pages interesting, that uploading the NHS Test and Trace ways to engage online and in socially those working for the town will feel App. I know as a community we will distanced ways. Our schools have encouraged, and that more residents take every step we can to care for reopened their gates to all pupils may feel the needs of others, protect the NHS, and played an enormous role in inspired to let keep our schools open and support re-energising and supporting young us know what our economy and cultural heritage. people and their families. Thank you you want to to them all. see, and join us in working towards it!

Ilkley Mayor, Cllr Mark Stidworthy.

Ilkley Moor and White Wells.

Autumn 2020 newsletter Ilkley Town Council www.towncouncil.ilkley.org | 1 The new Green Spaces, Environment Why has the Town Council and Sustainability Committee has responsibility across these areas.

reorganised its Committees? The Finance, Assets and Amenity Committee ensures that the Council’s Ilkley Town Council has reorganised its Committees to be more focussed on finances are carefully but flexibly our priorities, more responsive in engaging with residents, and more flexible managed. This committee also in our use of public funds. We hope to serve residents better and make the oversees Ilkley’s public toilets and most of the talents and interests of Councillors and staff. the Jubilee and Christmas lights. Our Planning Committee continues to meet We want to hear your ideas about every three weeks, harnessing the local what matters to you. Councillor effort knowledge of Councillors to respond to and funds achieve much more when planning applications across the town. aligned with shared community goals. The new Community Engagement We hope the reorganisation will help and Partnerships Committee seeks to Councillors to focus on our key themes refresh key relationships, for example of community engagement and with Bradford Council, Ilkley BID and the environment. Funds previously Ilkley’s voluntary sector organisations. available through the Awards and We also want to build new Projects Committee are now divided relationships across Ilkley’s cultural between these two areas and remain and sporting life, and particularly concerns underline our desire to open for public application. with young people and their families. protect our environment, address the Climate Emergency, finalise Details of Committee membership can Environment and sustainability our Neighbourhood Plan and make be found on the Town Council website, were highlighted at the May 2019 progress on safe active travel and the and members will be pleased to Town Council elections. These Wharfedale Greenway. answer any questions you may have. Transport, roads and rights of way Ilkley Allotments As part of its reorganisation, the Active travel is an important aspect Ilkley Town Council has 159 Town Council recently set up a sub- of our remit. We work with the allotment garden plots which are in committee to work on these issues. cycling community to improve the great demand so only one allotment possibilities for cycling in and around per household is permitted. Tenants The sub-committee meets on a the town including the Greenway. must live within the Ilkley parish monthly basis. Regular items on our We are also starting to monitor boundary and be over 18 years of agenda include parking, car parks, pedestrian rights of way in the town, age. road safety, traffic issues, active to ensure that it is pleasant and travel including the Greenway, and convenient to walk around. It was fortunate that working on pedestrian rights of way. allotments was allowed during We welcome comments and lockdown and subsequent restrictions. The streets in the centre of the town suggestions from residents on any The present health crisis has added (The Grove, Brook Street and Railway of these issues and our meetings are new challenges, but also rewards, to Road) are regular items on the open to the public. Please contact the allotment holders, many of whom agenda, since developments on these Clerk to give your views or for further have had more time than usual to tend streets are fundamental to the way information. them. Gardening takes your mind off ▶ Ilkley develops as a whole.

20 mph zones in both Ilkley and Ben Rhydding are also an issue of specific interest. Bradford Metropolitan District Council (BMDC) have recently produced plans for such zones and presented them to the Town Council for consideration. These are based on extensive infrastructure including traffic calming and signage and are expensive (around £200,000 in total for both schemes). The Town Council is currently in discussion about these proposals with BMDC and looking to Typical traffic congestion on the Grove. see if there are cheaper alternatives.

2 | www.towncouncil.ilkley.org Ilkley Town Council newsletter Autumn 2020 Focus on the Green Spaces, IYCA at Little Lane

Environment and Sustainability Ilkley Youth Club Association became a charity in 1996. We took over the Committee Children’s Centre at Little Lane when a nursery school closed. This The Green Spaces, Environment and with our Climate Emergency part of the centre is now occupied Sustainability Committee oversees Declaration ambitions before by All Saints Pre-School. The cost and supports the work of three sending it to Bradford Council for its of converting a council gardener’s subcommittees: Climate Emergency consultation in November and then garage to a youth club was funded by Declaration; Transport, Roads and on to inspection and referendum in local people and local professional Rights of Way; and Allotments. The May 2021. bodies. We now pay a low rent to the Ilkley Neighbourhood Development council for the building. Throughout, Plan working group also reports • Making representations to the all our efforts have been to maintain back to this Committee. government’s ‘Planning for the council youth services in Ilkley. Future’ consultation about the At the heart of our work is a concern need for urgent and ambitious On Monday nights we host LS29. This to help us all reduce carbon emissions national planning legislation is a group for local resident families across the town in the face of the to ensure zero carbon, energy who have children with additional climate and biodiversity crises. Here efficient and affordable new needs. It offers support, activities and are some ways we are working to housing. fun, and provides a social network for support the sustainability, climate sharing experiences and knowledge and Covid-19 resilience of our local • Promoting healthy streets and with other parents, together with community. safer walking and cycling by activities for children and their working to support the Wharfedale siblings. Wednesday night is a full • Partnering with Climate Action Ilkley Greenway and 20 mph zones in youth club night. On Friday IYCA fund to deliver an Ilkley Town Council Ilkley and Ben Rhydding. (with Ilkley Town Council support) a sponsored scheme of specialist session to assist school transfer to training for building professionals • Working to identify more space for upper school, to help youngsters on a SURE Insulation approach to allotments and local food growing. assimilate into upper school. This ‘Super Insulation and Air-Tightness’ session also runs as a youth club for appropriate for existing properties • Continuing to work closely with other young people. We believe this in the town to reduce carbon Climate Action Ilkley, local residents helps reduce tensions and has reduced emissions and fuel bills. and voluntary groups on the Ilkley anti-social behaviour in the town. Sustainability Plan. • Ensuring the Ilkley Neighbourhood With the help of local sponsors Development Plan is consistent Councillor Ros Brown, Chair (including Ilkley Town Council this year) we run the Summer of Fun events, involving ‘Clip n Climb’ and and keep it in good order. Now that the Youth Service. Covid-19 has made the crisis has eased, the Tenancy this year difficult. We ran two of the Agreement T&Cs will be applied, so planned three sessions, the third that neglected plots will be released having to be delayed. The aim of these to reduce the waiting list and reopen sessions is to give parents and children it to new applicants. a short break of an hour or two.

An ongoing challenge is keeping the Recently we have been able to restart allotments as secure as possible. The baby services; Baby Sensory (early Allotments work in progress: promised work on erecting security learning) and Bumble Kids (singing, before and after. fencing and gates was completed in dancing and social interaction) April. groups. Since the fire at the Olicanian ▶ worrying about the pandemic and Cricket Club we are now hosting All the activity is good for body and soul. Plans for the future are to start Saints Pre-School. The martial arts a seed and plant swap, set up Kokoacademy use our premises and During this time there have been a buddy system to help new or runs on three late afternoon/evenings increased enquiries about plot struggling allotmenteers and grow a and Saturday mornings. availability. Unfortunately the waiting biodiversity area to attract beneficial list has been suspended as there insects. We are always seeking to improve, are 75 people on it and the waiting and our ultimate project is to form a time is five to six years. In fairness to When we can meet again, allotment covered sports hall at the rear that those people we cannot have wasted holder consultations will be held to will be available for community use. growing space, so every tenant develop partnership working between must work their plot productively, tenants and the Council. Martin Smith, Chairman IYCA

Autumn 2020 newsletter Ilkley Town Council www.towncouncil.ilkley.org | 3 Awards made this Autumn The Town Council is pleased to announce that it was able to make several Manor House Trust, the Ilkley Youth awards this summer to local groups. and Community Association and Children’s Centre, the Ilkley Cricket The Green Spaces, Environment and for an award to fund the additional Club and Nell Bank Charitable Trust. Sustainability Committee received monitoring in Ilkley associated with applications from the Ilkley Clean River the bathing water application. If your group would like support from Group for funding to test water quality the Town Council for small projects along the length of the river Wharfe The Community Engagement that will be of benefit to local residents, from its source to its end on one day and Partnerships Committee please contact the Deputy Clerk on: in August. The Group also applied received applications from the Ilkley [email protected]

Making an application for an Award The rules for making an application for an award to the Green Spaces, Nell Bank Environment and Sustainability Committee and the Community Engagement Nell Bank Outdoor Education is and Partnerships Committee have changed slightly. looking forward to a dry undercover area this autumn. The leaky roof Applications will only be considered If you are unsure about how this may of the undercover area can now be from local groups/organisations affect your application, please contact replaced thanks to a donation from that either operate in, or benefit the the Deputy Clerk who will be pleased Ilkley Town Council’s Community people who live in, the Ilkley parish to discuss it with you. Engagement and Partnerships area (Ilkley and Ben Rhydding) and Committee. The re-roofing is a long- that the applicant can demonstrate The application forms and criteria awaited project as the original roof that consideration has been given as can be found on the Town Council’s was beyond repair! to whether the project is consistent website under the Committee and with the aims of carbon reduction sub-Committee membership tabs. The undercover area is crucial for and sustainability as outlined in the https://towncouncil.ilkley.org/ Nell Bank’s various activities, as it Town Council’s Climate Emergency committee-and-sub-committee- provides a dry space for ‘meeting and Declaration of 2nd December 2019. membership-2020-2021 greeting’ groups of up to 150 children on arrival at the Centre.

As the only covered space on site that ‘Inside Out’ at the Manor House can accommodate groups of over 100, Thanks to an Ilkley Town Council complying with all the requirements it is used year-round to give protection grant, the Manor House has made of Covid-19’ said Nick Robinson, from rain and sun, and is vital for its courtyard into a pocket park Operations Manager of the Trust. fundraising events and open days. It providing a place for everyone to also hosts school talent shows, musical enjoy the space and local history. Art School Ilkley operates from one of performances, and drama, and is used the cottages opposite the courtyard. as an outdoor café during public events. Seating has been increased, planting The art school have been able to It provides a general activity area in extended, information about the house use the open air space and seating poor weather, is used for parachute and site improved and cyclists can lock to provide a perfect setting for art and circle games, and provides a safe ▶ their bikes onto cycle storage planters. workshops for all artists to enjoy.

Over the bank holiday The Cooperative Therapies and Yorkshire Flower weekend the courtyard Community Fund has Essences who practise in one of was the perfect setting kindly funded musical the Castle Yard cottages to provide for a performance of offerings designed to information about the medicinal uses some of Shakespeare’s appeal particularly to of some of the flowers in the courtyard. monologues by Ilkley visitors with additional You’ll find QR codes next to various Playhouse actors, en- needs but available plants which give all the details. tertaining an apprecia- to everyone on QR tive audience. codes. These pieces The Castle Yard Arts Festival held on have been developed in 10th and 11th October, was supported ‘We have tried hard to partnership with LS29 by Ilkley Town Council. offer the community youth group, and Made some uplifting activities with Music. Full details of opening times, how during the lockdown the house is set up to receive visitors and this was our first The Manor House and how to book timed tickets are attempt at a small- also worked with available on the Manor House website scale performance Ilkley Complementary www.ilkleymanorhouse.org

4 | www.towncouncil.ilkley.org Ilkley Town Council newsletter Autumn 2020 work. Hopefully next A Memorial Summer! year will see its use again as a place of It has been a memorable summer for everyone in the parks along the River commemoration. Wharfe in Ilkley. The parks had been quiet during the Covid-19 lockdown and then crazily busy on its release, with a number of much publicised issues. The other main project embarked Through all of this, the volunteers of upon this year has been the appeal for the Friends of Ilkley Riverside Parks the renewal of the playground area in have continued going about their work Riverside Gardens. Co-ordinator of the to maintain and improve the standards Appeal, Nicola Homes, said: of our parks. Twice every week there have been litter pickers cleaning up ‘The playground as a destination the litter that is dropped, and general attracts families from a wide area maintenance has continued in the park. and is much loved by children. In launching the appeal our primary One of the biggest projects was the focus is to conduct a survey with renovation of the Memorial area in the local community to understand Riverside Gardens. Benches were their wants and needs, thoughts and sanded and re-stained, with new ideas for both the playground and plaques fitted, funded by the Town and the main plaque cleaned. It had the riverside parks generally. With the Council. The area has been trimmed been hoped that it would be ready results we can then design and build a and the stonework power washed for a celebration of VE or VJ Day playground that is fit for purpose.’ but sadly Covid-19 put paid to that. However, we were visited by the The survey will be distributed across Town’s Mayor, Mark Stidworthy, who local networks in the autumn, so, keep thanked the volunteers for all their an eye out and please do have your say. Ilkley Clean River Group The Environment Agency has released figures that show that every river in England is failing the water quality tests for pollution that were established 17 years ago under the Water Framework Directive. This Directive has a legally binding goal that 100% of UK rivers should reach ‘good’ ecological status by 2027.

Nell Bank outdoor space roof It is also 19 years since the Urban sewage into the river 201 times over in need of repair. Waste Water Treatment Directive 144 days. Legal action is now being (UWWTD) was enacted that states launched with the Good Law Project ▶ location for the ‘Bikes and Trikes’ that sewage should only be to hold the Environment Agency to sessions with disabled children. As a released untreated into rivers under account through a judicial review of bonus, its restoration will help extend exceptional circumstances, and never their decisions not to hold the water the life of the adjoining buildings. in normal conditions. In Ilkley, in companies to account. 2019 Yorkshire Water discharged raw ▶ p. 6 … The centre is looking forward to welcoming children back this term, having been awarded Covid Secure Status. The systems and process are in place to ensure children’s safety.

Thanks to Ilkley Town Council’s generous contribution and matched funding from BMDC this work will be done in time for winter, and the area’s floor treated with non-slip paint. This will free up funds to expand the Centre’s work with local disadvantaged children. The project will transform this practical, much-used area of the site and be of even greater value to the community as an outside undercover area where social distancing may still be necessary for groups.

Autumn 2020 newsletter Ilkley Town Council www.towncouncil.ilkley.org | 5 Organisations working together during lockdown Ilkley Cultural Cooperative re-energising of the cultural scene in Ilkley next year,’ says Sarah Thomas, As a result of the impact of Covid-19 on the cultural organisations in Ilkley, Chair. an informal group has emerged called Ilkley Cultural Cooperative, that has a focus on helping the organisations to support one another and find ways There is representation on the group of working together. ‘It is an informal group that meets once a month online’ from: said Sarah Thomas ‘and all the organisations use the forum as a way of sharing information and exploring solutions to problems we are all sharing. • Two Rivers Swing Band & All the organisations have found the forum helpful and it is hoped that the Two Rivers Concert Band group will continue after Covid-19 if it continues to add value.’ • Art School Ilkley • Ilkley Cinema ‘The group has had input from one • Ilkley Amateur Operatic Society ▶ Ilkley Clean River Group from p. 5 of the Arts Council digital champions • Ilkley Literature Festival to help us all use our social • Ilkley Arts In Ilkley local residents formed the media platforms more effectively. • Ilkley Manor House Trust Ilkley Clean River Group. It has taken We have also explored what • Ilkley Playhouse 2 years to secure the data on these recommencement/opening plans we • Ilkley Film Society sewage discharges, and, through have. The group is now a member • Ilkley Arts Festival citizen science testing (funded by of the Bradford Council Cultural • Nell Bank Outdoor Education Ilkley Town Council), to demonstrate Recovery Group alongside Ilkley BID. Centre the impact of the pollution on people • Upstagers using the river. At the sewage outfall ‘Our next major task is to look in Ilkley the pollution from E. coli towards 2021 and start to explore For more information contact – reaches over 40 times the level how we work together to support the [email protected] deemed safe by Defra for people to paddle or bathe. The ICRG wants Yorkshire Water to put up signs in Fairtrade Fairtrade works with – not only places where the level of pollution because of its impact on people’s in the river is always so high that it health, but also the very real is a danger to people’s health. This possibility that containment measures is between the iron bridge and will cause widespread hardship to Beanlands. We are in discussions people’s incomes and wages. Demand with Bradford Council about whether for their products has fallen to the signage can be provided on the extent that crops may go to waste and approach to the polluted areas. people will have no income to provide food and basic necessities. The ICRG has pursued every avenue to secure action to stop the discharge Fairtrade works with producer and of raw sewage into the river. The worker cooperatives in 73 countries, current application for Bathing and many were able to help their Water Status seeks to ensure that local communities with infection the Environment Agency tests the control items such as facemasks and water quality weekly and alerts the hand sanitiser. public to the pollution levels. The application is supported by hundreds Ilkley is a Fairtrade Town and many Can we do anything to help? As a of Ilkley residents, The Town of the businesses and community Fairtrade Town we can continue Council, Bradford Council, our MP organisations sell or use Fairtrade to support those businesses and Robbie Moore, and numerous local goods. The coronavirus crisis means organisations that sell and use organisations. that many businesses cannot trade Fairtrade products. Our purchasing as normal and have suffered greatly choices can make all the difference. The ICRG has worked with the and continue to do so. Yorkshire Dales Rivers Trust, and One small action has the power to Environment Group (in This situation also has far reaching change someone’s life for the better. collaboration with the Environment repercussions for those farmers and Look for the Fairtrade symbol. Agency and Yorkshire Water) to test workers in the developing world the water quality along the whole who produce such things as tea, There are Fairtrade directories, and a length of the Wharfe on one day, to coffee, bananas and cocoa under the range of fairly traded Traidcraft items demonstrate the sources of pollution. sustainable Fairtrade certification label. online at www.fairtrade.org.uk Testing took place in August. or contact Ilkley Fairtrade Group to There is deep concern that Covid-19 find out more, email: Becky Malby will devastate the communities [email protected]

6 | www.towncouncil.ilkley.org Ilkley Town Council newsletter Autumn 2020 Organisations working together during lockdown What’s happened to our Ilkley BID sporting facilities over the Ilkley Business Improvement District summer lockdown have been busy supporting local businesses during the Covid-19 pandemic, keeping businesses Olicanian Cricket Club informed with government guidance and assisting with grant applications. Club members are celebrating after receiving planning permission for a new Now that secure measures are in pavilion to replace the one destroyed in last year’s arson attack. place throughout the town, the BID have started to push forward with The club submitted plans in January, affect us in the future.’ new initiatives focusing on driving but the fact that its Denton Road base footfall to boost the town’s economy. lies in the River Wharfe’s recently The new pavilion will be modern, light expanded flood risk zone, delayed the and airy. The lounge and bar area will Discover Ilkley—Ilkley BID are planning progress. have room for 90 diners and will be delighted to be working with the Town available to the public for hire. Council on the Discover Ilkley project Chairman David House said that will bring a high-quality managed ‘We’ve had to modify the plans to The cost of the new building has yet website. This will promote Ilkley and accommodate the requirements of to be finalised. The club has received all it has to offer to local visitors and the Environment Agency. Our ground an insurance pay-out and the public those from further afield, together with has been flooded in recent years and and other organisations donated a whole range of other linked activities. whilst the floodwaters never reached more than £20,000 in the immediate our former pavilion, the plans for its aftermath of the fire. Nevertheless, it The Town Council’s contribution will replacement have had to take into is thought a further £80,000 may be help fund a new consumer friendly account how climate change may needed to complete the building. website. Work has already started on the website with the launch planned for Autumn 2020. The new website will be an informative central The Burley source of information for businesses, Trojans shoppers, visitors and residents to The Burly Trojans find out what’s happening in Ilkley, (Girls U9) football where to shop, what to eat, where to team, enjoy being go and how to get there. able to play their favourite sport again Working alongside the website at Ben Rhydding is the LoyalFree app that was Sports Ground. launched in August. Users of the The Town Council app can collect loyalty rewards, find gave an award to Ilkley exclusive discounts and offers, fun Town Football Club local events and explore interactive to improve the ladies’ trails. More details can be found at and girls’ toilets. www.discoverilkley.co.uk.

We encourage everyone to download the free app to have access to the local Ilkley Cricket Club discounts, information and events. Ilkley Cricket Club has experienced a difficult time in 2020. In Extension of the Christmas Lights— addition to the restrictions imposed by the coronavirus, the club also The BID has plans to extend the experienced a major flood in the spring. However, work will start on Christmas lights in the town centre. the construction of a wall around the perimeter of the clubhouse at the To complement the current Christmas conclusion of the season. The club expects that the wall will prevent the lights funded by the Town Council, worst excesses of future flooding (the club has been flooded five times more are being planned to cover in the last five years). The Grove, Promenade, Hawksworth Street, the Crescent Courtyard and ‘The club is deeply indebted to Ilkley competitively in a shortened season The Moors Shopping Centre. Town Council and Sport England for our juniors have only had series of two grants each of £4,000 to support friendly matches. However, given the To finding out more about these this initiative,’ said Brian Wheeler, challenging circumstances everyone and other BID activities, visit the BID Secretary, Ilkley Cricket Club. He appreciated the limited amount of website www.ilkleybid.co.uk added ‘Whilst we played senior cricket cricket we were able to play.’

Autumn 2020 newsletter Ilkley Town Council www.towncouncil.ilkley.org | 7 News in Brief A festive reminder from Team Sparkle! • The Town Council office staff, based Join us on Saturday the 28th of November at 5pm as we ‘Illuminate Ilkley’ at the Town Hall have been working together and switch on the Christmas lights. from home during lockdown, keeping office routines running. Ilkley Town Council is moving with family safe while building a sense of the times and this year, due to Christmas spirit. • Now that lockdown restrictions our uninvited guest Covid-19, our have eased slightly, the office is Christmas light switch-on is moving We want you to join the countdown staffed by one staff member each online. Yes, we are going digital and fun and share your home switch weekday, and staff can be contacted Ilkley Christmas lights switch-on is on experience as we all Illuminate between 10.00am – 1.00pm. coming to you from the comfort of Ilkley together. It’s simple, prepare Please remember that members of your own home! your lights, record your countdown the public must wear a face mask then share on social media using the inside the building. You no longer need to dress for the hashtag #IlluminateIlkley at 5pm cold, wet and windy weather you can on the 28th of November. A winner • Once again vandals have targeted now watch from the comfort of your will be chosen and a prize will be the lifebelt in Riverside Gardens. front room, as you can keep your provided for the best entry. This time the belt was set on fire. Fortunately, the flames were spotted by a passing member of Ilkley Town Council and Committee Meetings 2020/21 the public who reported it immediately to the Town Council. All meetings held remotely at 7.30pm (unless otherwise stated) Thankfully, the fire was contained and extinguished, but the Town December 2020 Monday 7th Full Council Council has had to replace both Tuesday 8th Community Engagement and the belt and the safety lines. Partnerships Tuesday 15th (5.30) Planning • You may have seen the Tuesday 15th Green Spaces, Environment advertisement on the Town and Sustainability Council’s website for a Councillor Wednesday 16th Finance vacancy. Sufficient members of the public have requested that an January 2021 Monday 4th Full Council election be held. Owing to the new Tuesday 5th (5.30) Planning Covid-19 regulations, a by-election Tuesday 26th (5.30) Planning to fill the vacancy cannot be held until May 2021, assuming that these February 2021 Monday 1st Full Council restrictions have been lifted. March 2021 Monday 1st Full Council Monday 8th Allotments

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