Agenda

Meeting:

Richmond (Yorks) Area Committee

To:

Councillors Yvonne Peacock (Chair), Caroline Dickinson (Vice-Chair), Kevin Foster, Bryn Griffiths, David Hugill, Tom Jones, Carl Les, Heather Moorhouse, Stuart Parsons, Karin Sedgwick, Angus Thompson, Steve Watson, David Webster, John Weighell OBE, Annabel Wilkinson and Peter Wilkinson.

Date:

Monday, 29 June 2026

Time:

10.00 am

Venue:

The Grand - County Hall

 

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

 

Business

 

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1.  

Election of a Chair

 

 

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2.  

Apologies for absence

 

 

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3.  

Election of a Vice Chair

 

 

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4.  

Minutes of the meeting held on 2 March 2026

 

(Pages 3 - 10)

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5.  

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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6.  

Public questions or statements

 

 

Members of the public may ask questions or make statements at this meeting if they have given notice to Democratic Services (democraticservices.east@northyorkshire.gov.uk) and supplied the text by midday on 24 June 2026, three working days before the day of the meeting. Each speaker should limit themselves to three minutes on any item.

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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7.  

Update from the MP

 

 

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8.  

LINK banking hub provision for Stokesley

 

(Pages 11 - 32)

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9.  

Community safety and CCTV annual update

 

(Pages 33 - 46)

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10.  

Update on Town Investment Plans

 

(Pages 47 - 50)

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11.  

Updates from the previous meeting

 

(Pages 51 - 56)

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12.  

Work programme

 

(Pages 57 - 60)

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Items 13 a-c for information only

 

 

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13a

Rural connectivity

 

(Pages 61 - 112)

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13b

Local library services

 

(Pages 113 - 116)

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13c

Richmond (Yorks) Area Committee annual report

 

(Pages 117 - 120)

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14.  

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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15.  

Date of next meeting

 

 

Monday, 21 September 2026 at 10.00am.

 

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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 also 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

 

Enquiries relating to this agenda and meeting please contact:

Name: Nicki Lishman, Senior Democratic Services Officer

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

E-mail: nicki.lishman@northyorks.gov.uk

Tel: 01653 638476

Website: www.northyorks.gov.uk

 

 

Barry Khan

Assistant Chief Executive

(Legal and Democratic Services)

County Hall

Northallerton

 

Friday, 19 June 2026

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