Agenda

Meeting

Executive

To:

Councillors Carl Les (Chair), Mark Crane, Gareth Dadd, Richard Foster, Michael Harrison, Simon Myers, Heather Phillips, Janet Sanderson, Malcolm Taylor and Annabel Wilkinson.

Date:

Tuesday 31 March 2026

Time:

11.00 am

Venue:

Meeting Room 2, County Hall, Northallerton

 

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 17 March 2026

 

(Pages 5 - 28)

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3.  

Declarations of Interest

 

 

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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 to Elizabeth Jackson, Principal Democratic Services Officer, and supplied the text by midday on Thursday 26 March, 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 Leader who will instruct anyone who may be taking a recording to cease while you speak.

 

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5.  

Consideration of the acceptance of the delegation of certain transport functions from York and North Yorkshire Combined Authority to North Yorkshire Council, for recommendation to the Chief Executive Officer for approval

(Pages 29 - 46)

 

 

 

 

Recommendations

 

Executive Members are asked to

 

(i)    note the contents of the YNYCA report

 

(ii)   to make recommendations to the Chief Executive Officer for his consideration when exercising his emergency delegated powers in response to the YNYCA decision relating to Local Transport Powers on 27 March 2026.

 

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6.  

North East Regional Coastal Monitoring Programme 2027-2033

(Pages 47 - 58)

 

 

Recommendations

 

That Executive

 

(i)   agrees to the Council submitting a bid for £7,147,000 + 10% contingency of £714,000 for Flood Defence Grant in Aid (FDGiA) administered by the Environment Agency to continue the delivery of the North East Regional Coastal Monitoring Programme into its 4th phase through the North East Coastal Observatory

 

(ii)  delegate acceptance of the grant if awarded, subject to acceptable terms and conditions, to the Corporate Director Resources in consultation with the Corporate Director - Environment, Executive Member for Finance (Deputy Leader) and the Executive Member for Highways and Transportation.

 

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7.  

Forward Plan

 

(Pages 59 - 76)

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8.  

Any Other Items

 

 

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

 

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9.  

Date of Next Meeting - 21 April 2026 (Ripon Town Hall)

 

 

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Members are reminded that in order to expedite business at the meeting and enable Officers to adapt their presentations to address areas causing difficulty, they are encouraged to contact Officers prior to the meeting with questions on technical issues in reports.

 

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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:

Elizabeth Jackson, Principal Democratic Services Officer

E-mail:  elizabeth.jackson@northyorks.gov.uk

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

Tel:  01423 556409

Website: www.northyorks.gov.uk

 

Barry Khan

Assistant Chief Executive Legal and Democratic Services

County Hall

Northallerton

 

Monday 23 March 2026

 

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