Scarborough and Whitby's MP is backing the creation of a town council for Scarborough.
When the Borough Council is abolished in April parts of Scarborough wont have any lower tier authority as they don't currently have parish councils.
The unparished areas of Scarborough include these current borough council wards:
- Castle;
- Eastfield (part);
- Falsgrave and Stepney;
- Northstead;
- Weaponness and Ramshill;
- and Woodlands.
Sir Robert Goodwill thinks creating a new town council would be a good solution with a number of benefits.
As part of the ‘Case for Change’ for local government produced by North Yorkshire County Council setting out proposals for a single unitary authority for North Yorkshire, a commitment was made in relation to ‘double devolution’, which would see greater powers and funding passed to parish and town councils.
Whilst the majority of rural areas and all the smaller towns within North Yorkshire are covered by town or parish councils, the two largest towns being Harrogate and Scarborough remain unparished. The Case for Change stated that the new council would seek to develop parish or town councils where they don’t currently exist and people wanted them, including Harrogate and Scarborough.
Sir Robert Goodwill says Whitby's Town Council has been good for the town and thinks Scarborough should have the same.



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