If a new town council is created for Scarborough should outlying parishes join in? The town's MP thinks the idea has merit.
Parishes around Scarborough should consider becoming part of a new town council for the area. That's the view of Scarborough and Whitby MP Sir Robert Goodwill.
Some parts of Scarborough will be left without a parish council when the borough is abolished in April, those areas will eventually get a new Town Council but Sir Robert thinks other parishes should consider merging with the new entity.
On April 1 this year, North Yorkshire County Council, Scarborough Borough Council along with the county’s six other district authorities, will be replaced by a new North Yorkshire Council that will deliver all local services.
A central pledge in the case for this change was that town and parish councils would be enabled to take on greater responsibilities if they want to and can make a successful business case. As centres of population without parish councils, residents of unparished parts of Scarborough and Harrogate were invited in summer to give their views on whether they wanted to create a council.
In Scarborough the recommendation is for a new parish to be established for the unparished area, and for a new authority called Scarborough Town Council to be created to serve the area. The parish would be divided into wards, matching those that will apply to North Yorkshire Council, and a total of 10 councillors would be elected.
In Scarborough, the proposed new parish would exclude the following areas:
- The unparished part of Eastfield Ward, which is recommended to form part of Eastfield Town Council.
- The unparished part of Charles Williams Apartments, which are recommended to form part of Newby and Scalby Town Council.
- The three unparished properties at Osgodby, which are recommended to form part of Osgodby Parish Council.
An initial consultation on the issue was carried out in the Autumn with 69.9 per cent of respondents in Scarborough in favour of creating a parish council, with 18 percent against.
Scarborough MP, Sir Robert Goodwill thinks it's needed.
It's expected there will be a further consultation on the draft recommendations between February and April to allow final recommendations to be presented to the new North Yorkshire Council in the summer.
The town councils would be formed for administrative purposes from April 2024, and the first elections would be on May 2, 2024, when councillors would be elected for a reduced term of three years. Elections would then take place every four years from 2027
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