Agenda

Meeting

Scarborough and Whitby Area Committee

To:

Councillors Liz Colling (Chair), David Chance (Vice-Chair), Derek Bastiman, Eric Broadbent, David Jeffels, Janet Jefferson, Rich Maw, Clive Pearson, Heather Phillips, John Ritchie, Tom Seston, Subash Sharma, Neil Swannick, Roberta Swiers and Phil Trumper.

Date:

Friday, 5 June 2026

Time:

10.00 am

Venue:

Scarborough Town Hall, St Nicholas Street, Scarborough, YO11 2HG

 

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.  

Election of a Chair

 

 

To elect a Member as Chair of the Scarborough and Whitby Area Committee for the 2026/27 municipal year.

 

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2.  

Apologies for absence

 

 

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3.  

Election of a Vice-Chair

 

 

To elect a Member as Vice-Chair of the Scarborough and Whitby Area Committee for the 2026/27 municipal year.

 

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4.  

Minutes of the meetings held on 2 March and 23 March 2026

 

(Pages 5 - 26)

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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.  

Feedback from previous meetings - Chair's report

 

 

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7.  

Public questions and statements

 

 

Members of the public may ask questions or make statements at this meeting if they have given notice to St John Harris of Democratic Services and supplied the text (contact details below) by midday on 2 June, three working days before the day of the meeting.  Each speaker should limit themselves to 3 minutes on any item.  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 Chairman who will instruct anyone who may be taking a recording to cease while you speak.

 

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8.  

Attendance of MP Alison Hume

 

 

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9.  

Annual Report of Performance Against the Safety Plan (Port & Marine Facilities Safety Code)

 

(Pages 27 - 34)

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10.  

Presentation by Yorkshire Water on their investment plans for Scarborough and Whitby and public consultation exercise to shape how the £120m investment is delivered

 

(Pages 35 - 62)

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11.  

Urban Gull Strategy

 

(Pages 63 - 190)

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12.  

Community Safety Annual Reports 2025/26

(Pages 191 - 214)

 

      i.        North Yorkshire Police Community Safety Annual Report 2025/26

     ii.        Community Safety and CCTV Service Annual Update

 

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13.  

Schools update report

 

(Pages 215 - 230)

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14.  

Scarborough & Whitby Area Committee Work Programme 2026/27

 

(Pages 231 - 234)

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15.  

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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16.  

Date of next meeting

 

 

Wednesday, 30 September 2026 at 10.00am at Whitby Pavilion

 

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17.  

Reports circulated for information only

 

 

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17a

Area Committee Annual Report 2025-26

 

(Pages 235 - 238)

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17b

Extraordinary meeting 23 March 2026 on bathing water quality in Scarborough - responses to the Area Committee's recommendations and requests for further information

 

(Pages 239 - 300)

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17c

Development of North Yorkshire Council Empty Homes Strategy update

 

(Pages 301 - 302)

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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:

St John Harris, Principal Democratic Services Officer

E-mail: stjohn.harris@northyorks.gov.uk

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

Tel: 01723 383556

Website: www.northyorks.gov.uk

 

 

Barry Khan

Assistant Chief Executive

Legal and Democratic Services

County Hall

Northallerton

 

28 May 2026

 

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