North Yorkshire Police will be carrying out mobile safety camera enforcement on the following roads between Wednesday 25 July and Tuesday 31 July 2012.
•A64 east-bound Bowbridge Farm Tadcaster
•The Village, Stockton On Forest, York
•A1036 Malton Road, York
•A1237 Monks Cross, York
•York Road, Haxby, York
•A1237 Monks Cross, York
Proposed changes to eligibility criteria for adult social care support
The York Council are saying that; “On 1st August the Cabinet Member for Health Housing and Adult Social Care will be considering a report on the results of consultation about changing the eligibility criteria for adult social care support. The change would see those with moderate needs being supported by alternative community based approaches, and only those with substantial or critical needs supported through personal social care budgets and services”.
Over 1200 people responded to the consultation, with over 30% of residents who currently receive support from adult social care giving their views. This is an exceptionally high response rate for surveys of this nature.
Unfortunately the Council failed to tell those asking to comment on the proposals that there were alternatives to withdrawing care facilities from dozens of York residents.
A short time earlier the Liberal Democrats had put forward a budget amendment which would have allowed those with moderate needs to continue to receive care. Instead savings would have been made in a range of other areas including the cost of “Cabinet” posts, withdrawal of the planned “free WiFi” services in the City centre and abandoning vanity projects such as the “innovation” fund.
It is hardly surprising therefore that three in every five respondents (61%) a”ccept that the Council will need to change its eligibility criteria to ensure that those most in need of support can be protected”.
The Council has committed that if the decision is taken to change the eligibility criteria no support will be withdrawn from anyone affected without a formal review of their needs with a social care officer. The review will establish if their needs have changed and will look at alternative options for support if the individual remains at the moderate level of eligibility. Carers needs will be included in these reviews.
If the change to eligibility criteria is agreed it would see this local authority using the same threshold as many other Labour controlled authorities across the country. Over 100 elderly York residents would lose their care services under the Labour proposals.
Residents can still make representations.
For more information about registering to speak ,written representations or copies of reports for this meeting please contact the Democracy Officer – Catherine Clarke / Louise Cook Telephone – (01904) 551031 or E-mail – catherine.clarke@york.gov.uk and louise.cook@york.gov.uk
York 800 Flotilla sails back into view
The York Council has announced;
“City of York Council is delighted to announce today (24 July) that the York 800 flotilla, originally scheduled for Charter Weekend, will now take place on Sunday 26 August along the River Ouse in the city centre.
The flotilla was originally intended to take place on Sunday 8 July during Charter Weekend, but had to be postponed because of high river levels after prolonged heavy rainfall.
The rescheduled event will feature hundreds of boats of varying shapes and sizes from lunchtime onwards on the River Ouse, and people will be able to see it from any safe vantage point along the riverbanks between Naburn Marina and Clifton Ings. There will also be entertainment in Tower Gardens from 11 o’clock onwards.
More details of the programme for the day will be available nearer the time on www.york800.com“
The national trading standards e Crime team based in York have issued a warning to Olympic fans after launching an investigation into the supply of ‘fake’ medals from an internet auction site. The medals, which cost up to £29 each, bear unauthorised copies of the five rings logos and are mocked up to resemble the real thing.
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Potential witnesses to a serious assault in a nightspot in York have been urged to contact North Yorkshire Police.
A19-year-old local man suffered a fractured jaw and facial injuries in an incident that occurred in the male toilets at the Tokyo club, Toft Green, between 3am and 3.30am on Sunday 15 July 2012.
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The Council are consulting on the future of the “footstreets”. They say;
We would like your views on ways of improving the operation of the footstreets (pedestrian zones) in the city centre.
City of York Council’s Archive team are putting on a free exhibition at York Explore Library Learning Centre to explore 800 years of York’s civic history.
The exhibition comes after being awarded a grant of £9505 from Yorventure – an independent not for profit environmental body that gives grants to community and environmental projects through the Landfill Communities Fund with Landfill Tax Credits generated by Yorwaste.
The grant will be used to purchase three bespoke display units for inside the library, as well as four outside notice panels. The units will be designed to coordinate with the original Brierley furniture at the library, and build in sustainable oak and birch by local carpenters.
The exhibition will launch on 25 July and will run until 30 September along side this year’s medieval themed Big City Read. Volunteers from across the community have used the city’s unique archive of historical documents to tell the stories of men and women who have lived and worked in the city from the 13th to the 20th centuries.
Goddards
The National Trust have applied for a premises Licence for Goddards. Gaddards is the former Terry family home at 27 Tadcaster Road which opened to the public for the first time at the weekend.
The application is for a premises licence to allow:
i) Plays, Films, Live Music, Recorded Music, Performances of Dance, Provision of Making Music and Facilities for Dancing – Indoors & Outdoors
Mon – Sun 10:00hrs – 22:00hrs
ii) Supply of Alcohol – On and Off Sales
Mon – Sun 10:00hrs – 22:00hrs
iii) Opening Hours Mon – Sun 24:00hrs
Any representations on the application have to be made to the Councils licensing department by 14th August.
All applications can be viewed in full at the council offices 9 St Leonard’s Place. Contact the licensing section on 01904 552512 for an appointment to view. Representations must be made in writing in the timescale indicated on the notice and sent to the Licensing Office, 9 St Leonard’s Place, York YO1 7ET
Representations must relate to one or more of the 4 licensing objectives of the Act namely, prevention of crime and disorder, public safety, prevention of public nuisance and the protection of children from harm.
http://tinyurl.com/York-Licensing-2012 (This register is updated regularly)
The York Council continues to claim that the Susanna Gregory novel “Mystery at the Minster” “was specially commissioned for the Big City read“.
This seems unlikely as the book was first published in August 2011 and publicity material from that time made no reference to either the Big City Read or the York800 celebrations.
Nevertheless it is a good read and is deservedly recommended.
The Council says,
City of York Council’s Library and Archives service are inviting residents to meet the acclaimed author of a brand new book that aims to get the whole city reading together and talking about ‘Mystery in the Minster’.
Novelist Susanna Gregory was commissioned to write the thriller specifically for the Big City Read and will be fielding questions, reading extracts and revealing some hints on the plot at the launch event at York Explore Library Learning Centre on Wednesday 25 July from 7pm.
‘Mystery in the Minster’ is a medieval-themed murder mystery and the seventeenth in Susanna’s bestselling series – of which over 100,000 copies have been sold. It features her regular character physician-cum-sleuth Matthew Bartholomew who finds himself in York. What starts as a dispute over land soon turns to murder…
This year’s chosen book is available from all of York’s 14 libraries and Explore centres from 26 July. What’s more, each book given away this year will contain a unique ‘bookcrossing number’ which readers can use on www.bookcrossing.com to enter comments on the book, as well as seeing where the book has been previously and keeping track of it once it’s been passed on.
Tickets to the launch event are free but booking is essential. Book online for all events at www.york.gov.uk/libraries or by calling into any library. Residents can also follow the events using twitter @yorklibrariesuk or facebook at www.facebook.com/ExploreYorkLibrariesandArchives.
The London Evening Standard reported this week a new poll under the headline Even Lib-Dems say Lords reform is not a priority. Buried two-thirds of the way down, however, was this interesting data:
Today’s poll found the idea of reforming the Lords, which still has 92 hereditary peers, is widely supported. Eight in 10 people back the idea of reform at some point in time.
It is highest among Lib-Dems, at 87 per cent, and lowest among Conservatives at 75 per cent. Only 16 per cent of the public thought the chamber should be left as it is.
Here’s what Lib Dem MP Tom Brake had to say about the finding:
“Clearly people’s priority now is employment and growth, but … if you ask people whether it’s right that people should make laws just because their grandfathers and fathers did, they are gobsmacked by the notion.”