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BBC News
05-05-2025
- Politics
- BBC News
Campaigner calls for bigger bins outside York city centre
The recent rollout of larger litter bins in York should be extended beyond the city centre, as existing ones elsewhere struggle to cope, a local campaigner has Council recently introduced larger 240l litter bins in an attempt to stop them Democrat activist Andrew Mortimer said the council should consider installing these bins outside shops and takeaways by the Hull Road and Melrosegate junction to replace ones that regularly Kent, the council's environment spokesperson, said its waste collection teams were working to keep the city as tidy as possible despite being stretched. The new bins have been installed at the southern end of Parliament Street, in Stonebow, Duncolme Place and along Blake Street.A council report stated there were plans to install bins in Station Road, close to York Station by the Cholera Burial Ground, this year. It added other sites could be considered for new bins as and where council has also bought a compact Goupil vehicle designed to pass through narrow spaces in the city centre to collect and clean bins more will also be working on new shift patterns that cover longer hours and seven days a week from this spring, following a successful trial during the Christmas Market extra road sweeper has also been added to the council's fleet this year. Speaking at the council's Environment Decision Session on April 29, Mortimer said suggestions that the rollout of larger litter bins could take place were welcome, according to the Local Democracy Reporting said: "But the report only seems to deal with the city centre, there's a high concentration of takeaways at Hull Road shops and existing bins there are regularly overflowing at the weekend with pizza boxes."This seems like the ideal location to trial a larger bin."Environment executive member Kent said: "When we've got nine million visitors a year there will be bins overflowing on a hot summer's day but that doesn't mean there isn't a schedule in place."Those bins will be collected and if they haven't been, there's a good reason for it, it doesn't mean that someone doesn't care or that there isn't a system."Our teams are stretched as they are in all local authorities, but some of the pictures I see on a daily basis of what they've cleaned up before we've had breakfast is revolting."They don't give up and they put up with complaints, they're the unsung heroes of our city." Listen to highlights from North Yorkshire on BBC Sounds, catch up with the latest episode of Look North or tell us a story you think we should be covering here.
BBC News
10-02-2025
- Business
- BBC News
Working from home risks 'hollowing out' London
Sir Sadiq Khan has said London "cannot afford" to become a city where "the centre has been hollowed out" due to people working from at an event on Wednesday, the mayor repeatedly outlined his concerns about the post-lockdown decline in office working across the capital, according to the Local Democracy Reporting urged employers to encourage staff back into the office, but suggested companies had a responsibility to find ways to make the office environment more appealing for comes as flexible working arrangements to allow staff to work from home are being restricted or brought to an end by some employers with offices based in London. Sir Sadiq told the event, hosted by the consultancy firm Project Leaders, he was also concerned about young graduates entering their first jobs in the wake of the said they may fail to strike up connections with their colleagues or acquire certain skills due to the lack of office added London's businesses should think "very carefully" before deciding to reduce their office space, as they may regret the longer-term impact on their mayor stressed that London was not alone in having failed to return to pre-pandemic commuting levels, adding that it was proving a challenge for most other cities around the world – with the notable exception of some in Asia. It follows moves by several companies in London to restrict or end remote working policies including Amazon, the Metropolitan Police and global communications firm some companies, incentives are being used to encourage employees back into the workplace Eat for Business, which asks staff to be in the office three days a week, offers an allowance for free food every rise in flexible working has also reduced Transport for London's (TfL) revenue from of March 2024, the number of Tube journeys during morning peak hours on a Monday stood at 70% of the level seen on the equivalent Monday in March 2019. On Friday mornings, the comparative rate was only 62%, whereas for Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, ridership stood at 79%.In an attempt to address the collapse in ridership on Fridays in particular, the mayor ran a £24m reduced fare trial over three months last year, but a recent report found that it made "no noticeable difference" in the number of peak-time journeys on Fridays. One guest at the event told Sir Sadiq he felt his company was "losing the battle" in its attempts to persuade workers back into the office, due to the high cost of rail fares – particularly for those commuting from the Home mayor blamed private train operators for overseeing a series of above-inflationary fare increases, stressing he had tried to freeze Tube and bus fares whenever possible. He added he and his City Hall team had lobbied the Department for Transport to consider "innovative" ways of making rail travel more attractive for commuters in and around separate remarks, Sir Sadiq admitted he was still "annoyed" that HS2 would not be travelling further north than Birmingham, after the project's northern leg was axed by then-Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in taking power last year, the Labour government has refused to commit to reinstating plans for a route as far as Manchester, although it confirmed that trains will reach Euston station, rather than terminating at Old Oak Common in west government has been contacted for a response.
BBC News
08-02-2025
- Business
- BBC News
Selby: Trebling of housing target sees Local Plan dropped
The trebling of a target for new houses in North Yorkshire has prompted council chiefs to halt work on a fresh Local Plan for Yorkshire Council members have agreed to stop the preparation of the document, which would have provided a blueprint for development in the town until authority's executive heard on Tuesday that the government target for housebuilding in the county had gone from 1,300 units a year to 4, Mark Crane said: "We feel this is the right time to stop." He added: "Unfortunately the figures from the government would have such an impact on any Local Plan that we no longer feel it's worth going ahead."We would have to go about consultation and find significant extra sites in order to reach the number of houses that Selby would require to deliver to get to North Yorkshire's 4,077," he said work already completed on the plans would not be lost, according to the Local Democracy Reporting added: "It will now be subsumed into the new North Yorkshire Local Plan and so the money spent, and the time spent so far, will not have been wasted." Housing shortfall A report to councillors advised that the plan could not be submitted to the Secretary of State for final approval without further time and money being spent on the emerging Local Plan worked on the assumption that 368 new houses in the Selby area would be needed every year to meet using calculations in the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF), which was released by the government in December, between 483 and 561 properties a year would now be needed, meaning a shortfall of up to 2,895 houses over the plan's the plan to be approved, further work would have been needed to allocate new sites for housing, including more public consultation officers estimated that it would cost around £180,000 to ensure the plan was legally to highlights from North Yorkshire on BBC Sounds, catch up with the latest episode of Look North or tell us a story you think we should be covering here.
