Katie Atkinson
CPRE NY Trustee meeting 22 November 2016
CPRE NY Trustees meet tomorrow to discuss planning across the county and Branch management issues
Living in rural North Yorkshire costs more - fact
Regional Y&H and CPRE NY chair interviewed by Ben Barnett of the Yorkshire Post.
Enormous development planned for much loved area in Craven
Hellifield - more development applied for.
Did you know?
Did you know that 70% of the world's heather moorland is located in the UK?
Furthermore, did you know that our own North York Moors National Park contains the largest continuous expanse of heather moorland in the UK?
Well, you do now!
CPRE NY responds to the North York Moors Local Plan - First steps consultation
CPRE North Yorkshire has responded to the consultation currently underway in the North York Moors National Park
The Branch commissioned Katie Atkinson of KVA Planning in Helmsley to prepare a professional report incorporating the opinions of our local groups within the NYMNP
A copy of the reponse will shortly be available on line
There's no need to plough up the countryside....
There just isn't the so called need to plough up our countryside according to recent CPRE research....
news from the Selby area
Innovative project - Selby coalfield still producing energy!
Following the first phase of workings on the Selby mine, when it became uneconomic to continue developing the mine for its original purpose of coal extraction, UK Coal invested in the construction of a power generation unit on the Stillingfleet site. As ground water gradually rises in the old drift mine workings, the methane emerging from the coal seams is forced to the top of the original man-riding shaft where it is captured and burnt for electricity generation. This facility is now owned by private equity group Capital Dynamics Clean Energy which has investments in similar generating facilities at Kellingley, Thoresby and Harworth providing a total of 26 Megawatts exported to the grid from 14 gas engines.
This is seen as a beneficial use of a potent greenhouse gas which would otherwise be discharged to atmosphere or flared off. It also makes use of some of the built assets on the old mine site, and uses the pre-existing electrical connections to the grid. The operation is unobtrusive: very little traffic is generated and negligible noise and light and smell pollution is evident.
The Stillingfleet site currently has planning permission to continue this activity until 2024, when the economics will be re-assessed based on the rate of recovery of methane at that time.
Damned if you do and damned if you don't - twin tracking
Damned if you do and damned if you don’t!
There recently was an appeal running concurrently with the application at Hellifield - twin tracking
National Wool Week!
Wool - we've got plenty of sheep in North Yorkshire - we need to value them and continue to protect the grazing land in our county.
http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/our-region/west-yorkshire-and-the-dales/leeds/watchlist-breed-recruited-for-its-wool-by-yorkshire-bed-maker-1-8169268
Yorkshire is also home to Abraham Moon & Son, Moons operate one of the last vertical woollen millen which means that they complete all processes on one site