Major North Yorkshire projects at risk over funding pressures
The council's deputy leader and executive member for finance and resources, Gareth Dadd, said the authority was looking at prioritising schemes which were not already under way."All those legacy projects that have been hoped for in years to come, quite frankly, they ain't going to be a priority financially when competing against some of the real deep moral issues that we're having to deal with."He said the it was right the council took a "fresh look" at these projects."It's about a business case coming forward and then making the cut against what is vitally important to this authority, but more importantly to the residents that we're trying to protect and serve."
Loss of funding
The plan to relocate Malton's Livestock Market will only move forward if it is still considered a priority after a business case considering all the funding options was prepared.Improvement work to Sherburn Town Centre is also at risk after delays resulted in the loss of the shared prosperity funding needed to complete it.Meanwhile, a legacy scheme relating to the Wyvern Park Industrial Estate in Skipton could also be halted until a new business case and funding options are considered.According to the Local Democracy Reporting Service, a report to the council's executive also stated the redevelopment of the former Argos Site and Market Place Regeneration Project, in Scarborough, has already been dropped.Councillors have also been warned several schemes already begun were at risk of costing more than planned and could overrun.
Listen to highlights from North Yorkshire on BBC Sounds, catch up with the latest episode of Look North.
Hashtags
Try Our AI Features
Explore what Daily8 AI can do for you:
Comments
No comments yet...
Related Articles
Daily Mail
15 minutes ago
- Daily Mail
After wrong-footing her doubters with a £2.7bn swoop on rival TSB, meet the most powerful woman in British banking
The most powerful woman in British banking is now Ana Botin, a glamorous and hugely clever Spanish mother-of-three, and a skilled golfer. As executive chairman of Banco Santander, Spain 's number one bank, Botin is known as a winner in the poker game of finance. Last week, she entered British banking's big league after orchestrating a £2.7billion deal to buy high street bank TSB from fellow Spanish group Sabadell.
The Independent
21 minutes ago
- The Independent
Foreign policy was a ‘driver of 7/7 attacks', says former counterterror chief Neil Basu
The 7/7 terror attacks were in part driven by Britain's foreign policy under Sir Tony Blair, a former national head of counterterrorism has claimed ahead of the 20th anniversary of the bombings. On 7 July 2005, four suicide bombers targeted the capital, killing 52 people and injuring more than 770 on three London Underground trains and a bus. Confusion, panic and then terror gripped the capital, as survivors emerged from Tube stations, some with lost limbs, others supporting their fellow travellers who were caked in dust. Terror group al-Qaeda later claimed responsibility, and in the subsequent hunt for suspects, police shot dead an innocent man, Jean Charles de Menezes, at a Tube station. Speaking to The Guardian ahead of the anniversary, Neil Basu said: 'A driver of the 7/7 attacks was foreign policy and Iraq. That does not excuse in any way what they did. 'That foreign policy decision has radicalised and made extremists of people who might not have been radicalised or extreme. And if they were on the pathway, it's pretty much guaranteed … 'All terrorists will have a freedom fighter story. Bin Laden would have had a freedom fighter story. We might think it's crap. We might think it's self-justification, but he will have had a story about liberating his lands from the great invaders.' He also said it did not mean a terrorist threat should dictate foreign policy. Mr Basu said the 'shocking act' divided society. He said: 'When terrorists hide behind a religion to commit an atrocity, people blame every follower of the religion and the religion itself. We ought to stop doing that. 'That causes a fear and suspicion of people who don't look like you, think like you, eat like you, worship like you. That has got worse, not better, and that has been caused exactly as terrorists want, by dividing a society by committing the shocking act.' Terror attacks have 'interrupted a trajectory of tolerance', he added. Mr Basu said: 'That's what I think has been most soul-destroying … It has interrupted a trajectory of tolerance that I was becoming very familiar and happy with … 'It started with 9/11 … 7/7 accelerated that in this country. The relationship between races is worse today, or as bad today as it was in the 70s and 80s. That period of tolerance is over, and feels very much over.'
The Guardian
37 minutes ago
- The Guardian
This is a party I'm looking forward to
A new party focused on poverty, inequality and 'a foreign policy based on peace rather than war' (Report, 3 July). Oh Jeremy Corbyn, sign me up now. If you build it, we will HeleyBrighton, East Sussex When I did a politics course back in the 1970s, the lecturer told us that a large majority was just as difficult, and often more so, to handle than a small one (Welfare climbdown lets genie out of the bottle, and no one knows what happens next, 2 July). How right he was. Elizabeth GoaterSalisbury Kevin Ward (Letters, 2 July) should know that Royal Mail has a long history of inspired delivery. In 1967, I received my first (and only) piece of fanmail. Addressed to Dave the Folk Singer, Westward Ho!, the letter was personally delivered by the head postmaster, who was also my CooperNafferton, East Riding of Yorkshire Re the cost of Glastonbury (Letters, 2 July), go to the Proms instead. Promming (standing) tickets are £8. Who runs it? The BBC, of FullerBedford Regarding what makes someone cool ('You know it when you see it': experts size up scientists' attempt to define cool, 5 July), if you think you are cool, you probably aren' Campbell Bristol Alison McIntosh is right – it is what it is (Letters, 3 July).Marilyn RowleyDidsbury, Manchester We have just received our first Christmas catalogue!Mary HuttyBath Have an opinion on anything you've read in the Guardian today? Please email us your letter and it will be considered for publication in our letters section.
