RICCALL PARISH PLAN

THE COMMUNITY’S VISION FOR THE FUTURE CONTENTS Page No

Location Maps ...... 1 Overview ...... 3 Summary ...... 4 Background ...... 5 Riccall Timeline ...... 6 Introduction ...... 7 Crime Prevention ...... 8-9 Traffic ...... 10-11 Development ...... 12-13 Child/Youth ...... 14 Environmental ...... 15 Leisure ...... 16-17 Economic Development ...... 18-19

ACTION PLAN ...... 20-21

THE NEXT STEPS...... 22/23

APPENDICES Appendix 1 - Adult Survey Results Appendix 2 - Youth Survey Results Appendix 3 - Questionnaires

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

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Riccall Parish Plan LOCATION MAPS

• Berwick upon Tweed • RICCALL • Leeds • • Carlisle • Newcastle upon Tyne

• Sheffield • York • Leeds

Liverpool • • • Sheffield Manchester

• Leicester • Norwich Birmingham • • Cambridge

• Oxford

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• Taunton • Dover • Southampton

• Truro

______Riccall Parish Plan 1 OVERVIEW

An opportunity for everyone in the community to make themselves heard

In a small village BIG THINGS HAPPEN when people WORK TOGETHER

______Riccall Parish Plan 3 SUMMARY

‘A Parish Plan is a statement of how a community sees itself developing over the next few years. This statement cannot be made without first knowing the views of the community.’ – Parish Plans: Guidance for Parish & Town Councils, The Countryside Agency, March 2003. The Government’s 2000 Rural White Paper, which set out the Government’s plans for the countryside, initiated the Parish Plans to develop and set a framework for communities to plan their own future. Funding was made available through the Countryside Agency, with 25% to be made up from parish councils and volunteer hours in kind. Rural Community Council contributed to the initial setting up of the Riccall Parish Plan Group and advised on the final report. Riccall Parish Plan Group was formed in November 2003 after a public meeting held to discuss production of the plan and to gather the community’s views on the opportunities and problems in Riccall. The Parish Plan Group started work in January 2004. The 12 residents who formed the group had all been involved in village organisations and some had participated in the Village Design Statement. All felt that the Plan would be a challenge, but hoped that it would be an effective influence on future plans for the village, especially with Action Groups taking the plan forward on its completion. The Plan has taken 3 years to produce and is based on views expressed by residents through a household questionnaire and comments gathered on Launch Day, 1 May 2004. Four hundred and seventy-one completed questionnaires were returned, which is a fantastic 40% response from residents. Wishes and points of concern or approval were gathered at Launch Day, when residents either placed a card on the large aerial map of the village or entered a raffle by giving a ‘Blue Sky Wish’. Riccall youngsters completed a youth questionnaire directly online on Launch Day or returned the youth questionnaire sent to households. Data from the completed questionnaires were entered by the group onto ‘Compass’, a database programme provided through YRCC, and was analysed by market research consultants Pickersgill Consultancy & Planning Ltd. The ‘Blue Sky Wishes’ were collated and graphs produced to go alongside the analysis. Every plan has its limitations, and Riccall’s is no exception. Issues can only be broached and ideas mentioned from comments of residents who actually completed questionnaires and visited the Launch Day event. However, the Parish Plan Group believe that the Plan outlines a broad vision for the future and gives a basic framework of views from the community which will enable the Action Groups to proceed. Each Action Group will follow through an area of the plan and pursue views and issues for the community. Throughout the Plan’s production, several projects have been approved or started, ie the recreation ground , the A19 roundabout, Westfield plans etc. The Parish Council has formally adopted Riccall Parish Plan and Action Plan, and will ask the community to form the Action Groups. The Plan will be used to move forward actions and provide evidence of the community’s views in any future issues/funding for Riccall, hopefully working together with Council, County Council and other funding and planning organisations. Obviously the plan will need revising as actions take place, issues are resolved and views alter. Riccall Parish Plan is a starting point and can be an influence and input into other schemes for Riccall.

Hopefully, Riccall’s future will contain Riccall’s viewpoint, given through RICCALL PARISH PLAN.

______4 Riccall Parish Plan BACKGROUND

• October 2003 - initial meeting with residents and formation of Riccall Parish Plan Group • Virtual Village computer programme started • Riccall Village Design Statement consulted • Riccall Community Primary School contacted for logo competition • Formation of sub committee to produce questionnaire • Meetings held every 2 weeks and Launch Day planned for Spring 2004 • Donation given to Battle of Bands and School Sensory Garden • May 2004 - Launch Day at the Riccall Regen Centre, opened by John Grogan MP: Computer questionnaire for youths Talk by Richard Moody Music by Billy and Hollis Bills and Riccall Youth Band ‘Day After Dawn’ Large aerial map of Riccall Refreshments Photograph exhibition ‘Blue Sky Wishes’ • Stall at Riccall Carnival June 2004 • Delivery and collection of questionnaires to 1,000 households • Inputting of 395 completed adult questionnaires onto Compass database • 76 youth questionnaires were analysed by YRCC for the group • Tenders sent out for analysis of data • Meeting with Pickersgill Consultancy & Planning Ltd to discuss format of analysis report • October 2004 - Ken Silvers attends Parish Plan Conference at Regen Centre • Autumn 2005 - sub committee formed to pull draft report together • Sub committee meet with David Mitchell from Yorkshire Rural Community Council to discuss and receive advice on draft plan • Photographs and wording formatted and sent for printing to produce draft report for presentation to Parish Council meeting • Autumn 2006 - Report and Summary printed • Winter 2006 - distribution of 50 copies of Report • Summary to residents

______Riccall Parish Plan 5 RICCALL TIMELINE

1295 Prebendal Manor House mentioned

1150 1350 Riccall St Mary’s Church Wednesday – traditional date of Market and Fair granted founding 1066 Harold Hardrada 1477 anchors his fleet. 3 Fisheries 1086 are known to exist Riccall in Domesday Book as Richale RICCALL 1548 2100 300 ‘housling’ Riccall’s people Future! live here TIMES 1672 2000 128 houses listed in Regen Centre hearth-tax return opens

1791 1927 A school established Village Institute at corner of Common Lane built and Main Street

1864 Methodist Church established 1871 York to Selby rail line opens

______6 Riccall Parish Plan INTRODUCTION

Riccall is a parish with both character and historic perspective, its earliest mention being 1066 when Harold Hardrada anchored his fleet on the Ouse. Riccall was a place of some importance, inferred from its possession of a church at the time of the . The Manor and church of Riccall were recorded as paying tithe to York Minster in the middle of the12th Century, which suggests the church is probably Saxon. In 1777 John Brown entitled his painting of Main Street ‘A View in the Town of Riccall'. By 1821 the population was 599, with 37 farmers documented in 1823. In 1842, 5 public houses were recorded, and in 1871 Riccall had its own station on the main line of the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER), which ran from Kings Cross to Edinburgh. The Flying Scotsman was one of many steam trains to travel through the village. The line was closed in 1983, and the bypass replaced the train tracks. In 1878, Riccall Co-operative Society was founded.

Photo courtesy of Wakefield Art Gallery

Lying some 10 miles south of York above the flood plain to the east of the River Ouse, Riccall is within easy commuting distance of most of the main urban areas of South and West Yorkshire, as well as the cities of Hull and York. For administrative purposes, Riccall is in the council district of Selby and the county council area of North Yorkshire. It is in the parliamentary constituency of Selby and Ainsty, and has its own parish council. Today there are some 1,000 dwellings in Riccall parish, housing nearly 2,500 people. The population has almost quadrupled in the past 40 years, as housing estates have been developed on what was largely farmland. Further development is likely to be confined to in-filling within the current village boundary. The needs of residents have been largely met by the shops, public houses, school, doctor’s surgery, village institute, recreation ground and transport facilities, which were established before the population growth. The Regen Centre, restaurants and the Millennium Green are more recent additions, and Riccall’s proximity to Selby and York provides the extra facilities larger urban areas can offer. The by-pass has taken through traffic away from the village centre. Riccall Parish Plan is a look at Riccall today and how residents feel it might be developed in the short and medium term. It attempts to give you the facts, to pull together the main areas of residents’ concerns, likes and dislikes, to highlight the problems and the potential, and to put together action points for our councils, groups and us as individuals to take forward for the overall good of our parish. In other words, to turn residents’ ‘wish lists’ into one Riccall ‘wish list’. A mammoth task – but here goes!

______Riccall Parish Plan 7 CRIME PREVENTION

Background Riccall is a low-crime village. It is in the Selby Police area, which is part of Authority. Riccall and adjacent villages have both a dedicated community police officer and a community support officer. The village has had a Neighbourhood Watch organisation, at various levels of activity, for many years. Mayfair Security was employed by the Parish Council, at a substantial cost to local council tax payers, to patrol the village twice an evening and to provide a contact telephone number for reporting problems in the village. This was in response to villagers’ concerns over recent years about anti-social behaviour and by the perceived lack of police concern about this. However, in summer 2005, the Council decided to cancel the contract, as we no longer benefited from the services offered. Dog fouling has always been a major problem, particularly in the winter months, with the dark mornings and evenings.

Facts and Feedback It is not an offence for children or young people to be on the streets singly or in groups; however, causing a nuisance to individual villagers or groups of villagers is an offence and should not be tolerated. With the demise of Mayfair Security, the Police and Community Support Officer presence in the village needs to be more regular and more visible. They need, also, to respond to residents’ telephone complaints with sympathy and speed. Neighbourhood Watch should continue to raise its profile and should be fully supported by as many residents as possible. Liaison between Neighbourhood Watch and the Parish Council is essential. The Parish Council needs to obtain regular incident reports from the police and these should be reported as necessary to villagers. The Council also needs to monitor and review the possibility of re-contracting Mayfair Security in the future. Individuals also have a major input to make in respect of anti-social behaviour.

______8 Riccall Parish Plan Main Points of Concern from Questionnaires • Press for greater and more effective policing of the village • Individuals to assume greater responsibility for their own, their children’s and their dogs’ behaviour • Individuals to report incidents to police straight away and to always ask for an incident number • Parish Council to consider using its new powers in respect of anti-social behaviour, dog fouling, litter dropping and on-street drinking • Regular Dog Warden presence in the village • Promote the Neighbourhood Watch scheme more effectively • More publicity and information on incidents in the village should be given in the Parish News, Beacon and Parish Council website • Parish Council to keep under review the need to re-introduce the use of Mayfair Security

Safe, friendly village – keep it that way!

Need for a village policeman.

Quotes from questionnaires

______Riccall Parish Plan 9 TRAFFIC AND HIGHWAYS

Background The re-routing of the in the early 1980s and the subsequent building of the Riccall by-pass on its footings have been a major boon for the village. Recent improvements include: 30mph roundels painted on the roads at the village’s entrances; a path built in front of the Pinfold; lines painted in front of the Post Office to make the junction and the parking areas clearer; new school crossing patrol lights erected; Coppergate made a 20mph road; safety fencing erected at the north of the village where the cycle path runs alongside the A19; at the north of the village, the junction with the A19 being more clearly defined and a pedestrian refuge created; the Ash Grove/Landing Lane path being made a right of way and given a hard surface; the A19/King Rudding Lane and the A19/Main Street junctions being more clearly defined. Two important issues remain – the roundabout at the south entrance to the village and parking restrictions in the vicinity of the traffic lights.

Facts and Feedback The roundabout was expected in the summer of 2006 and consultation on parking restrictions at the traffic lights started in the summer of 2005. It is hoped for a positive outcome on both these measures. Pedestrian safety, particularly at school crossing points and crossing Main Street, is a highlighted problem and needs to be addressed. Safer access points to the village at all three intersections was identified, therefore further measures need to be taken to slow down and limit heavy traffic entering the village. Random speed checks throughout the village could be carried out to highlight the problem. The roundabout and an associated traffic calming measure should help. Parking outside the Post Office needs to be looked at further.

______10 Riccall Parish Plan Main Points of Concern from Questionnaires • Keep pressing for new roundabout at Main Street/A19 junction • Pedestrian safety throughout the village • Consider further measures to slow traffic entering village • Revisit the problems caused by parking outside the Post Office

Improved pedestrian crossing for A19 [at south entrance]

Enforced speed limit of 20 mph

Quotes from questionnaires

______Riccall Parish Plan 11 COMMERCIAL AND HOUSING DEVELOPMENT

Background Riccall has always been a working village. Historically this was based on farming and market gardening. These activities still take place and have been supplemented by other small, mainly service industries. The village’s main local employer, the coal mine, has come and gone, with perhaps less devastating effects than were predicted. In many ways, the village is now a commuter village for the many towns and cities that are readily accessible from Riccall.

The main housing developments have taken place over the past 40 years, mostly on land sold by farmers and market gardeners, and the style of these new builds vary, both in size and cost. Five years ago, in order for villagers to have a greater say in Riccall’s development, a Village Design Statement was produced. This document was to be considered by planners when looking at potential new sites, but unfortunately it has had little effect to date. The older, central, part of the village has conservation area status.

Facts and Feedback The Dunelm Farm site is the only major development that can take place within the parish. All others are likely to be small ‘in- fills’ within the present village boundaries. The Village Design Statement needs to be fully taken into account when considering all new builds, particularly those within the conservation area. New developments need to be sympathetic to good examples of established housing. Expansion outside the current village boundary should be resisted. All future builds should strike the right balance between providing a range of affordable housing without changing the essentially rural nature of the village and its people.

Commercial development needs to be carefully controlled. The biggest challenge at the moment relates to the future use of the coal mine site. Should it be levelled to the ground and returned to agricultural use or should the existing buildings be developed for office, light industrial or leisure use? Usage needs to be environmentally friendly and sympathetic to the rural nature of its setting.

______12 Riccall Parish Plan Main Points of Concern from Questionnaires • Ensure that the Dunelm Farm development is sympathetic to its central location within the village • All future developments to take full regard of Village Design Statement • Suitable affordable housing to be included within developments • No developments to be allowed outside existing village boundaries • Riccall mine site only to be kept for commercial use if developments are appropriate to the parish and if full consultation takes place with villagers • The existing conservation area to be preserved

The village will be spoilt if too many houses are built Rural environment – now urban sprawl More affordable housing to buy or rent Housing for youth to be able to stay in village

Quotes from questionnaires

______Riccall Parish Plan 13 CHILD AND YOUTH FACILITIES

Background In 2001 Riccall won the North of Youth Provision Award in the Village of the Year competition. Riccall was praised for having a good village primary school, nursery, mothers and toddlers, playgroup, out of school club, toddler and junior church and scouting and guiding groups. All these facilities still exist, as well as the recreation ground, with its new equipment, and the bowls and tennis clubs, the Regen Centre and the Village Institute, which all offer facilities and opportunities for children and youths.

Facts and Feedback All the existing facilities should be encouraged to continue and prosper. Where necessary, external funding opportunities should be sought to enable this to happen. There is a lack of voluntary and paid youth workers, therefore people should be encouraged to take on this work by the provision of training and funding. Provision of care for young children is available but may need expanding, particularly child care and nursery provision. The Regen Centre is currently considering whether its nursery facilities can be viably extended and the primary school is looking at the whole concept of extended schools. Children and youth facility requirements - such as better green spaces/playing field/playground facilities/areas for youths to congregate – should be undertaken in full consultation with children and youths.

Main Points of Concern from Questionnaires • Consult children and youths on future requirements • Carry out a detailed audit of what is required and likely costs • Expand toddler and teen play equipment • Develop a youth club • Extend provision for extra youth workers • Provide training in the provision of child and youth facilities • Market more positively what is available for children and youths

Build youth centre on West Field Spend on Youth, not Mayfair Security

Quotes from questionnaires

______14 Riccall Parish Plan ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES

Background Riccall has a number of ‘green spaces’ within the village and is surrounded by high quality agricultural land. These ‘green spaces’ include the Recreation Ground, Millennium Green, Village Green, Westfield, Riccall Landing and various Field Gardens (allotments). The River Ouse lies to the west of the parish and Skipwith nature reserve to the east. Both provide important environmental benefits to the parish. Approximately nine miles of rights of way enable villagers to enjoy their environment. Various charitable trusts, such as Riccall Lands Charity, have responsibility for many acres of land within the parish. Recent threats to the environment from a wind farm and an animal incinerator have been shelved. Both were strongly opposed by local people. Riccall coal mine has closed. Its presence in Riccall did not impact on the village as expected. Flooding was a major issue in 2000 and flood prevention and control work is taking place in the surrounding areas.

Facts and Feedback It is important that Riccall preserves its rural identity with all ‘green spaces’ retained, maintained and developed where needed. Charitable trusts should be supported with their responsibilities to maintain land inside and outside the village and to oppose any development on it. This will help protect the parish’s flora and fauna. Funding sources that can be used for ‘green space’ development should be pursued. Further flood prevention and control work is needed, whilst recognising that certain parts of the parish are within the River Ouse’s flood plain. The rights of way within the parish should be maintained to a higher standard and opened up for greater usage. Matters relating to the environment should be given greater prominence in local publications.

Main Points of Concern from Questionnaires • Oppose ‘environmentally unfriendly’ developments • Pursue possible funding sources for environmental issues • Support all responsible bodies to maintain and develop ‘green spaces’ • Publicise environmental matters more widely • Liaise with Environment Agency over flood control measures • Develop rights of way

Important not to lose allotments

Are flood defences in Riccall adequate? Quotes from questionnaires

______Riccall Parish Plan 15 RECREATION AND LEISURE

Background For a village of some 1,000 dwellings, Riccall has a good range of recreation and leisure facilities. There is a wide range of courses on offer, as well as halls that are suitable for concerts, dances and sporting and keep fit activities - such as aerobics, badminton, table tennis and soccer - and a play area for the younger children. There is also the local football team, bowls and tennis clubs. Rooms are available for a range of activities such as parties, meetings and dancing. The Recreation Ground has an informal play area, plus modern play equipment for the under 12s. The Millennium Green offers a further informal play area, plus planted areas for sitting and walking. The parish has nearly 9 miles of public rights of way and the Sustrans cycle path and walkway runs through the village, with connections to other similar tracks. Many groups operate in the village, catering for wide age and interest ranges – Beavers to Darby and Joan; Toddler Church to Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Scheme.

Facts and Feedback Whilst Riccall offers a wide variety of recreation and leisure opportunities, the results of the questionnaire highlighted residents’ wish for more diversity. More is planned. Further play equipment for toddlers and for teenagers will be installed at the Recreation Ground in 2006, and Westfield in Landing Lane, will be developed for informal play and junior football. Longstanding public rights of way will be more easily accessible throughout the parish within the next few months. Existing buildings, such as the Institute and Regen Centre, have the scope to host new activities. Individuals and groups need to use and help develop these facilities. The village does offer a lot, and could offer more, but finance will always be a restraint. However, the biggest restraint is probably the lack of volunteers to help take forward the ‘wish lists’ that villagers have. With everyone’s help, so much more can be done to ensure that Riccall continues to provide for the leisure and recreational aspirations of its inhabitants.

______16 Riccall Parish Plan Main Points of Concern from Questionnaires • Recruit and train volunteers to take forward recreation and leisure initiatives • Investigate funding opportunities for leisure and recreational development • Market facilities already available more effectively • Develop Recreation Ground further to offer facilities for teenagers and toddlers • Provide junior football facilities on Westfield • Open up and market public rights of way within the parish

Organised weekend activities Sheltered area for older teenagers

Quotes from questionnaires

______Riccall Parish Plan 17 ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

Background The River Ouse has played an important part in Riccall’s economic history. Around 1295 there was a fishery called Gedmer, and around 1477 three fisheries were said to have been destroyed by the City of York because they obstructed navigation. Riccall at one time was classed as ‘wholly agricultural’, with 37 farmers being documented in 1823. However, throughout Riccall’s economic history there have been brickworks in Westfield, flax pits along Kelfield Road, timber merchants in Station Road and refreshment rooms on Main Street. In 1842 there were five public houses, and two windmills are documented for 1840. The Yorkshire Ouse & Hull River Authority had works in Landing Lane in 1972, and the site is still used today.

Wastepaper merchants were situated on Main Street, but fire destroyed their warehouse in 1985. There is still a haulage firm in operation on Station Road. Riccall Mine started production in 1983, increasing the population as miners moved into the village.

Facts and Feedback At present Riccall has a wide range of small businesses, with nominal local employment opportunities. However, with the regeneration of the Riccall mine site still to be decided, it is hoped that the outcome will attract the type of businesses that would benefit the local economy, plus offer sustainable local employment.

Riccall has many facilities, established services and an historic background to build upon. As a diverse, thriving community, working together, we can move forward into the 21st Century.

______18 Riccall Parish Plan Main Points of Concern from Questionnaires • Riccall Mine site to be kept only for commercial use if developments are appropriate to the parish and if full consultation takes place with villagers • Develop, market and capitalise on Riccall’s heritage • Develop local job opportunities

Part-time jobs for young people

More local job opportunities

Quotes from questionnaires

Small businesses best way to revitalise

Regarding closure and redevelopment of Riccall Mine: Return land to farming not industrial

Quotes from questionnaires

______Riccall Parish Plan 19 ACTION PLAN

ISSUE OF ACTION POINTS PRIORITY ACTION BODIES CONCERN

CRIME PREVENTION • Press for greater and more effective policing of the village. A High (96% of respondents) • Riccall Parish Plan Group community police officer • Riccall Parish Council • Parish Council to consider using its new powers in respect of High (73% of respondents) • North Yorkshire Police anti-social behaviour, litter dropping, on-street drinking and dog • Neighbourhood Watch fouling, including regular Dog Warden presence in the village • Dog Warden

• Parish Council to keep under review the need to re-introduce High (74% of respondents) • Local District and County Councillors the use of Mayfair Security • Local MP

• More publicity and information to be given in the Riccall News, Low Beacon and Parish Council website

TRAFFIC & HIGHWAYS • Keep pressing for new roundabout at Main Street/A19 junction High (7% of respondents) • Riccall Parish Plan Group • Riccall Parish Council • Pedestrian safety throughout the village and revisit the problems High (4 Blue Skies respondents)

caused by parking outside the Post Office • North Yorkshire Police • North Yorkshire County Council • Consider further measures to slow traffic entering village High (7 Blue Skies respondents) • Local MP

• Speed cameras on A19 High (10 Blue Skies respondents)

COMMERCIAL & HOUSING • All future developments to take full regard of Village Design High (4 Blue Skies respondents) • Riccall Parish Plan Group DEVELOPMENT Statement, eg ensuring that the Dunelm Farm development is

sympathetic to its central location within the village and that no • Riccall Parish Council developments are allowed outside existing village boundaries • Selby District Council • North Yorkshire County Council • Suitable affordable housing to be included within developments High (50% of respondents) • UK Coal

• The existing conservation area within the village to be High • Village Design Statement Group preserved and to oppose ‘environmentally unfriendly’ • Local MP developments

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ISSUE OF ACTION POINTS PRIORITY ACTION BODIES CONCERN N CHILD & YOUTH • Consult children and youths on future requirements to develop High (28% - Youth respondents) FACILITIES youth facilities • Riccall Parish Plan Group High (48% of respondents) • Source extra youth workers • Riccall Parish Council

• Market more positively what is available for children and youths Medium (18 Blue Skies respondents) • Existing youth and child groups • Individual parishioners • Expand toddler and teen play equipment Low (3% of respondents) • Riccall children and youths

• Provision of more nursery places Medium (27% of respondents) • Riccall Parish Plan Group ENVIRONMENTAL • Liaise with Environment Agency over flood control measures to High (4 Blue Skies respondents) • Riccall Parish Council take into consideration the latest precautions put into place north and south of Riccall • Riccall Charitable Trusts • Environment Agency • Monitor any development following the closure of Riccall Mine, High (83% of respondents) • Selby District Council

eg possible pollution and its effect on the flora and fauna • North Yorkshire County Council

• UK Coal • Support all responsible bodies to maintain and develop ‘green Low (45% of respondents) spaces’ • Local MP N • Riccall Parish Plan Group RECREATION & LEISURE • Press for sports facilities on Westfield High (3% - Youth respondents) • Riccall Parish Council

• Local community and charitable

• Market more effectively the facilities already available Medium (30% of respondents) groups

• Individual parishioners

• North Yorkshire County Council • Riccall Parish Plan Group ECONOMIC • Riccall mine site only to be kept for commercial use if High (85% of respondents) • Riccall Parish Council DEVELOPMENT developments are appropriate to the parish and if full • Riccall Historical Society consultation takes place with villagers • Selby District Council • Develop, market and capitalise on Riccall’s heritage High • North Yorkshire County Council • UK Coal • Develop local job opportunities High • Local community and groups • Local MP

______Riccall Parish Plan 21 THE NEXT STEPS

The Parish Plan is only the beginning of planning and implementing a bright future for Riccall

The Parish Council has endorsed the Plan, and is happy to take the lead in moving the process forward by forming Action Groups

The original Steering Group will disband, and members will join the Action Groups, along with any other volunteers wishing to help with the implementation of the Action Plan

WATCH OUT

FOR INFORMATION

ON HOW YOU CAN GET

INVOLVED!

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Riccall Parish Plan is YOUR Plan

It is up to YOU to make sure that the Action Plan is implemented, monitored and updated

Monitoring the implementation of the Action Plan is important, and will be a vital part of the Parish Council’s and Action Groups’ work

In conclusion, Riccall Parish Plan Group wishes to thank everyone for their support and help

The Group has enjoyed the adventure, and believes that

THE FUTURE IS BRIGHT FOR RICCALL AND ITS RESIDENTS

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