Local Democracy Reporting Service

Original Factory Shop In Ilkley

Issa brothers apply to build drive-thru on site of Original Factory Shop

A photo showing tyre track ingress on a field containing the historic remains.

Anger at ‘reckless actions’ after fencing installed on historic monument site

Tsb Existing

Listed city centre bank will close early next year when new branch opens

Clare and Hannah Clayton

Hospital's explanation over withdrawal of treatment 'cruel', says mother

Sculcoates Bridge, also known as Chapman Street Bridge, in Hull.

Sculcoates Bridge: No end date in sight for multi-million pound restoration

Fencing at the former Greenology plastics recycling site in Liverton Mines, East Cleveland, which could be transformed with new commercial units for businesses to operate in.

Plans for housing on former 'toxic waste' recycling site destroyed by fire

Ripon Cathedral and city streets

Ripon: Traders angry at cathedral's plan to 'funnel tourists away from cafes'

Valley Drive, which runs adjacent to Valley Gardens, has topped the list for the most on-street PCNs issued in the town during each of the last three years.

More parking fines issued at Valley Drive than any other Harrogate street

Amelia Franks (centre) from Countryside Canines addresses Kirklees Council, with Julie from Happy Hounds and Suzie from Stroll and Stay with Suzie. Credit: Youtube/Kirklees Council

Dog boarding business owners call on council to review drastic fee hike

Holyrood Drive, York. Pic: LDRS

“Horrendous” parking near house that extended before getting planning permission

The Nidderdale Greenway's planned destination is Scar House Reservoir

Thirty-year plan to extend Nidderdale Greenway rail trail could be realised

Whitby

Whitby: Council has 'no power' to force developers to build affordable homes

Station Parade/Station Gateway

Council won’t have to repay if troubled Station Gateway project scrapped

Matt Walker, Knaresborough West.

Yorkshire councillor ‘disgusted’ at council’s job ad with £82,000 salary

How the church will look

£2.7m church in one of Yorkshire's most deprived areas given green light

Scarborough Marine Drive, 2023. LDRS

“Confident” upgrades in sewage quality will achieve “significant improvements”

The proposed site for the battery farm, off Newton Lane in Allerton Bywater.

Plans to build battery farm on greenbelt land in Yorkshire revealed

Ripon Cathedral trees

800-strong petition protesting Ripon Cathedral’s plans to fell trees delivered

A dog at Pip\'s Premier Pets. Credit: Pip\'s Premier Pets.

Licensing fee hike of almost 500 per cent has traders fearing

The Sunny Days nursery in Kirkleatham Lane, Redcar, which is set to close. Picture/credit: Stuart Arnold.

Long-standing nursery facing financial struggle plans to close next month

An axolotl

Axolotl one of the first animals to be cremated at Yorkshire pet crematorium
With its “smiling” face, pointy gills and the ability to regenerate lost limbs — the axolotl is undoubtedly the most unusual animal to pass through North Yorkshire Council’s new pet crematorium.

Huddersfield Town Hall's historic concert hall is an income generator for the council

Kirklees Council tell 750 staff that their jobs could be made redundant

Morrisons head offices in Bradford

Supermarket giant Morrisons' commitment to home city Bradford questioned

Staff at the University of Huddersfield are fearing for their livelihoods, anticipating another wave of compulsory redundancies.. An artist's impression of the new University of Huddersfield health campus to be built next to the ring road. (Image: AHR Architects Ltd)

Yorkshire university staff living in fear as risk of compulsory redundancy looms

The empty splash pool is a sorry sight

Paddling pool in Yorkshire park to remain closed after 'failing safety tests'

Leeds and Liverpool Canal at Rodley

Building of houses beside Yorkshire canal could leave residents 'marooned'

Protests over the shellfish deaths

Shellfish deaths: Government rules out compensation for affected fishermen

Hunslet Hall in Beeston, Leeds.

Historic Victorian school in Yorkshire sells for more than £800,000

The nesting kittiwakes at Scarborough Spa Bridge

£30,000 kittiwake removal scheme may have led to increase in seagulls

The site has become an eyesore

Council challenged in High Court over plans to demolish chapel in village

This map shows how the development boundaries have had to be amended

Major Yorkshire housing development scaled down as landowner decides not to sell

The York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has said that it will reintroduce staff parking charges from June 12 after they were suspended during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Scarborough and York hospitals to reintroduce staff charges from June
The NHS Trust that runs Scarborough Hospital will reintroduce staff parking charges from June with the use of number plate recognition cameras.

A councillor claims zero progress has been made to address safety concerns at the Redcar Beacon.

The Local Democracy Reporting Service revealed in July last year how teenagers had been climbing over safety barriers on a viewing gallery at the top of the 80ft high structure – which was subsequently closed – and in some instances lobbing missiles onto the ground below.

‘Zero progress’ claim on safety at Yorkshire attraction

A vivid mural on Leeds Road, painted in 2021 the run up to the 2025 announcement, is one site that could benefit from some tidying up.

Bradford to see ‘blitz of littering and anti-social behaviour’

Wakefield Council apologises after taxi driver wrongly told to stop filming public meeting

Council apologises after taxi driver wrongly told to stop filming public meeting

Scarborough College

Thor the walrus: Private school Scarborough College receives surge in interest

Pinewoods in Harrogate

Harrogate Pinewoods misses out on £32,000 due to admin error

A couple walk down the beach at Withernsea.

Withernsea 'noticeably quieter' as cost of living crisis keeps tourists away

Fly tipped site of one of city’s most famous pubs could be redeveloped amid news plans

Fly tipped site of one of city’s most famous pubs could be redeveloped

Paul Burns has concerns about the branch which could fall and 'kill a child'

Resident's concern over huge branch which 'could fall and kill a child'

Cherry Grange mental institute in Bentley

Terrified residents speak of yobs hurling bricks from abandoned mental institute

Market traders in Huddersfield want to surrender their existing lease arrangements with Kirklees Council rather than move across town to a new site. Queensgate Market Entrance, Huddersfield.

Huddersfield market traders want to surrender leases rather than move

The shop was given a one-star hygiene rating

Yorkshire chippy used dirty sponges and failed to defrost fish safely

Louise Haigh, MP for Sheffield Heeley, says she is contacted daily by people who had tried every avenue to get help with their mental health.

Mental health services 'on brink of collapse' warns Sheffield MP

The development of a new home on the outskirts of Ilkley has been refused as it would have a “harmful impact” on a neighbouring woodland.

Woodland Trust objects to house build plans in outskirts of Ilkley

East Riding Council headquarters in Beverley

East Riding Council bullying: Worker not allowed leave to be with dying mother

St James' Baths

Fitness and spa operators 'interested' in re-opening Doncaster's St James' Baths

A care watchdog has begun a review into deaths involving two children at the North Tees and Hartlepool Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

CQC ‘conducting review’ into deaths of two children in hospital

Harrogate Convention Centre

£1.5m spent on plan for Harrogate Convention Centre - which hasn't been approved

Chris Makin has promised to invest in the airfield site and create jobs

RAF Church Fenton owner defends decision to start work without permission

The government purchased homes on the Shimmer estate in Mexborough for HS2 land before the development was even finished

Ed Miliband says HS2 cancellation is a 'disgrace' after Shimmer estate fiasco

Andy Wallhead, chief executive at WDH.

WDH says chief 'doesn't take full salary' after claims he got huge pay hike

Bransdale in Guisborough

Children’s home plan in ‘nice, quiet’ area approved despite objections

The site where Kirby Hill Services is set to be built

‘No irregularities’ found in investigation into Kirby Hill A1(M) services report

Sheffield councillors meet in the council chambers

More than £25,000 spent on investigating Sheffield Council complaints

Coun Ahmed had led the Tory group in Opposition for seven years.

Wakefield Council's Conservative group leader ousted by party in coup

Harrogate Christmas markets

Harrogate Christmas markets in doubt over Stray safety row

The project will improve the entrance to Skipton Railway Station

Work on £7.8m Skipton Gateway project could start next June

Castleton. PIC: Gary Longbottom

Call to ease stringent planning restrictions in North York Moors village

Doncaster town centre. Photo: Scott Merrylees

Doncaster Council admits delays to issuing 1,300 postal votes