Agenda

Meeting

Skipton and Ripon Area Committee

To:

Councillors Robert Heseltine (Chair), Andy Solloway (Vice-Chair), Philip Barrett, Barbara Brodigan, Andy Brown, Nick Brown, Felicity Cunliffe-Lister, Richard Foster, Nathan Hull, David Ireton, Andrew Murday, Simon Myers, David Noland, David Staveley and Andrew Williams.

Date:

Thursday, 5 March 2026

Time:

10.00 am

Venue:

Belle Vue Suite, 1 Belle Vue Square, Broughton Road, Skipton, BD23 1FJ

 

This meeting is being live broadcast and recorded and will be available to view via our website and uploaded to our Youtube channel.

 

Business

 

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1.  

Apologies for absence

 

 

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2.  

Minutes of the meeting held on 4 December 2025

 

(Pages 5 - 16)

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3.  

Declarations of interest

 

 

All Members are invited to declare at this point any interests they have in items appearing on this agenda, including the nature of those interests.

 

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4.  

Public questions and statements

 

 

Members of the public may ask questions or make statements at this meeting if they have given notice and supplied the text to Harriet Clarke at democraticservices.west@northyorks.gov.uk by midday on Monday 2 March 2026, three working days before the day of the meeting.  Each speaker must limit themselves to 3 minutes.

 

Members of the public who have given notice will be invited to speak:

 

•               at this point in the meeting if their questions/statements relate to matters which are not otherwise on the Agenda (subject to an overall time limit of 30 minutes)

•               when the relevant Agenda item is being considered if they wish to speak on a matter which is on the Agenda for this meeting.

 

If you are exercising your right to speak at this meeting, but do not wish to be recorded, please inform the Chair who will instruct anyone who may be taking a recording to cease while you speak.

 

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5.  

Update from RT Hon Julian Smith MP

 

 

An opportunity for Members to discuss issues of key concern in the constituency.

 

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6.  

Airedale Hospital Update

 

 

A verbal update from the Airedale NHS Foundation Trust on the Airedale Hospital rebuild.

 

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7.  

Wyvern Link Road, Skipton

 

 

To provide the Area Committee with a verbal update via briefing note on the proposed Wyvern Link Road, Skipton.

 

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8.  

Annual School Update Report

(Pages 17 - 34)

 

To inform Members of the local educational landscape, educational achievement and the financial challenges which affect schools in the Skipton & Ripon Area Committee area.

 

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9.  

Ripon Mobility Hub Update

(Pages 35 - 44)

 

An update on progress and information as to whether a mobility hub in Ripon is feasible.

 

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10.  

Rural Energy Policies and Local Fuel Pricing Update

(Pages 45 - 50)

 

An update on rural energy policies and local fuel pricing disparity across the Skipton and Ripon area.

 

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11.  

Committee work programme

 

(Pages 51 - 54)

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12.  

Any other Items

 

 

Any other items which the Chair agrees should be considered as a matter of urgency because of special circumstances.

 

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13.  

Date of next meeting

 

 

Thursday, 4 June 2026 at 2.00 pm.

 

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Members of the public are entitled to attend this meeting as observers for all those items taken in open session. You may be interested in subscribing to updates about this or any other North Yorkshire Council committee.

 

Recording is allowed at Council, committee and sub-committee meetings which are open to the public. Please give due regard to the Council’s protocol on audio/visual recording and photography at public meetings. We ask that any recording is clearly visible to anyone at the meeting and that it is non-disruptive.

 

Anyone wishing to record is asked to contact the Democratic Services Officer (details below) prior to the start of the meeting.

 

 

Contact Details

 

For enquiries relating to this agenda and meeting please contact:

Name: Harriet Clarke, Senior Democratic Services Officer

E-mail: democraticservices.west@northyorks.gov.uk

Tel: 01609 535007

Website: www.northyorks.gov.uk

 

 

Barry Khan

Assistant Chief Executive

(Legal and Democratic Services)

County Hall

Northallerton

 

Wednesday 25 February 2026

 

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