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BBC News
21 hours ago
- Business
- BBC News
Yorkshire Dales approves ban for new properties as holiday lets
Rules to prevent new houses in the Yorkshire Dales from being used as holiday homes have been Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority (YDNPA) is proposing that any new housing must be used as the occupier's permanent to the 2021 census, around 22% of up to 13,100 homes in the park area were either vacant, holiday lets or second Twine, chairman of YDNPA, said that was an "exceptionally high level of under-occupied housing" when compared to a national average of 6%. "Everyone would recognise that house building must be done particularly sensitively in a national park [and] we've worked hard to identify and allocate land for development," he said."What our Local Plan policy for permanent occupancy means is that on sites of two or more dwellings, new homes will be restricted to principal occupancy only."This will avoid loss to the holiday market and ensure that new homes are lived in by people who can be socially and economically active in local communities, which is what we need."At a meeting at the YDNPA headquarters in Bainbridge on Tuesday, members agreed to submit the new Local Plan - which would run until 2040 - for approval to the government's Planning authority also formally adopted a set of objectives for an updated management plan, which include an aim to reduce the proportion of so-called under-occupied homes in the park to fewer than 20% by to the Local Democracy Reporting Service, it is hoped North Yorkshire Council's premium on council tax for second homes will work with the new occupancy restriction to help meet this target. The management plan aims to guide the work of all the organisations that operate in the national park during the next five Twine added: "The Yorkshire Dales National Park Management Plan is a genuine partnership plan."It sets out an ambitious – but necessary – programme of work to which many local organisations have committed their support."Whilst it rightly focuses on tackling the challenges of climate change and the continuing decline in nature, it also identifies other opportunities to foster the social and economic wellbeing of local communities, by setting out objectives for more affordable housing, hyper-fast broadband access, and support for viable farming businesses."Mr Twine said he hoped that with each five-year review, the management plan would become more embedded in the culture of all organisations working in the park. Listen to highlights from North Yorkshire on BBC Sounds, catch up with the latest episode of Look North.
BBC News
24-03-2025
- Politics
- BBC News
Councillor grilled on record of Yorkshire Dales Park meetings
A senior councillor could face disciplinary action over his poor attendance at finance meetings of the Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority (YDNPA).Councillor Simon Myers, who is North Yorkshire Council's executive member for culture, arts and housing, is also a member of the said he missed three YDNPA meetings in 2024 because they clashed with meetings of the council's executive, which he was obliged to of the YDNPA will decide what steps to take over the non-attendance at a full authority meeting on 25 March. 'Those are the rules' According to the Local Democracy Reporting Service Myers, who represents Mid Craven on the Conservative-led local authority, last attended a meeting of the YDNPA finance and resources committee in March then the councillor - who received the authority's basic allowance of £3,665 in 2023/24 - missed meetings in May, October and December last Tuesday, YDNPA members will be asked to decide whether to take any action against him and whether to notify the council, which appointed him to the park executive David Butterworth said in a report to members that the standing orders required him to bring the issue to the appointing body, unless the authority was "satisfied that circumstances do not warrant that course of action".He said Myers had told him that as a member of the council executive, who hold their meetings on Tuesday mornings, this had "clashed with the finance and resources committee meetings, which are also held on Tuesday mornings"."Therefore, he has faced difficulties in attending those meetings to meet his current council commitments," he Butterworth added Myers was "keen to continue to carry out his role as a full member of the authority" and pointed out finance and resources committee dates only clashed on one date in 2025, which would allow him to participate in three of four forthcoming about the potential disciplinary action, Myers said: "Those are the rules. I've missed three meetings on the trot. I'll have to make it work providing they don't sack me." Listen to highlights from North Yorkshire on BBC Sounds, catch up with the latest episode of Look North.
