Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority

Wharfe Camp in Kettlewell.

Yorkshire Dales campsite submits new plans to allow campervans on ten pitches
The owners of a Yorkshire Dales campsite have submitted new plans to allow campervans after withdrawing an earlier application over concerns about their impact ...

Farmer James Newhouse, who supplies meat to The Farmers Larder vending machine.

Farming venture proves a cut above

The former Barclays Bank in Grassington. Image submitted with the application.

Grassington: Former bank to be turned into bakery and cafe

The housing would be built next to the former Methodist Church in Langthwaite. Photo: Google.

Affordable housing approved for Yorkshire Dales village despite concerns

Many Yorkshire Post readers responded to the announcement by sharing memories of family picnics, summer days by the River Wharfe and walks through Burnsall stretching back decades.

Warning from national park to visitors following Burnsall Park closure

An artist's impression of the planned cafe submitted with the application.

Former bank set be turned into cafe and bakery

The house and pub in Aysgarth. Photo: Google.

Yorkshire Dales: Uncertainty over future of village pub sold at auction

Victoria Handby, Stuart Raw and Russell Grey at Yorkshire Dales first habitat bank, near West Scrafton.

First Dales ‘habitat bank’ to improve biodiversity

Miresfield Farm B&B has the Pennine Way running alongside it

Planners give go-ahead for Yorkshire Dales B&B to become holiday let

The house and pub in Aysgarth

Dales house in pub car park sold but occupancy restriction should remain

The former farmstead near Austwick

Enforcement action to be taken against owners of Yorkshire Dales farmhouse

The site of the new DSMC base before work started

'Industrial creep' - Company allowed to change plans for Yorkshire Dales HQ

The house was built in the car park of the George and Dragon in Aysgarth. Photo: Paul Fosh Auctions.

Concerns over 'cheap' sale of house in Yorkshire Dales pub car park

The public toilets in Hebden will be renovated. Photo: Google.

Disused Yorkshire Dales toilets to be renovated

Winterburn near Skipton

'Reminds me of Pontins' - Yorkshire village plans likened to 'ugly holiday park'

David and Helen Thomas with their children, Willow and Ash.

Home-to-school transport policy change 'threatens future of Dales community'

The driveway would be created opposite the village shop in West Witton. Image: Google.

West Witton: Green light for driveway despite concerns

The now-closed Moorcock Inn. Photo: LDRS.

Enforcement officers call police after Dales pub landlady refuses to allow entry

The line of the former railway as at approaches Hawes. Photo: YDNPA.

Plan to turn disused railway line into public path

Marske near Richmond. Picture By Yorkshire Post Photographer, James Hardisty.

Conversation area expanded around historic Yorkshire Dales village

The Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority headquarters in Bainbridge Picture: LDRS

Rule to stop new housing being used as holiday homes in Dales to be introduced
Rules to prevent new housing in the Yorkshire Dales from being used as holiday homes have been approved by national park authority leaders.
Joe Willis

Colt Park Barn, which Natural England is set to refurbish.

Natural England scheme given go-ahead despite wildlife concerns

Owner Jo Cox, outside the now closed Moorcock Inn.

Dales landlady vows to fight legal action after closing pub and opening tearoom

Bolton Abbey and the footbridge over the River Wharfe in the Yorkshire Dales National Park. PIC: Tony Johnson

Cutting funding for Yorkshire's national parks is a false economy - Andrew Vine

Kevin and Lizzie Batty with sheep and lambs, and their FiPL-supported shepherd's huts.

An invitation to nature-friendly farmers

The Yorkshire Dales National Park sign

Yorkshire Dales authority facing 'financial cliff' due to funding cuts

Councillor Simon Myers. Photo: NYCC.

No action taken against park authority member who missed meetings

Gayle Beck runs through Hawes, with a view of St Matgaret's Church in the Yorkshire Dales.

Exclusive Calls for power to ban new houses from becoming holiday lets

A red squirrel in the Yorkshire Dales.

Yorkshire council officials urged to act to stop red squirrel deaths

The nuclear bunker at Dent. Photo: SDL Property Auctions.

Cold War nuclear bunker in the Yorkshire Dales could become tourist attraction

Landlord Nigel Fawcett, on the decking outside the Street Head Inn.

Yorkshire Dales pub landlord accuses planners of 'pettiness' over decking

Looking down onto Giggleswick near Settle in the Yorkshire Dales National Park photographed for The Yorkshire Post by Tony Johnson

Plan to ban second homes in Yorkshire Dales sparks row amongst residents
Controversial plans to ban new holiday homes being built in one of Britain's most beautiful areas have split the community.
Izzy Hawksworth

Bainbridge Ings caters for visitors to Hawes

Businessman fined after refusing to remove caravans from beauty spot

The Yorkshire Dales is a popular spot for holidaymakers

Ban proposed to prevent new Yorkshire Dales housing being used as holiday lets

The village of Hudswell in North Yorkshire. Picture: James Hardisty.

Plans for four-bed home in garden of another property in village rejected

Looking down into Bishopdale and Wensleydale beyond.

Rural worker’s house in Dales approved despite claims owners have no animals

Yorkshire school bus

School transport policy ‘may force families to move out of Yorkshire Dales’

Bainbridge Vets, Askrigg

Future of vets where original All Creatures Great and Small was filmed in doubt

Cattle farming at Bolton Abbey Picture: Google Maps

Yorkshire dairy farm to create huge slurry lagoon close to Bolton Abbey

People cool down in the water at Aysgarth Falls last year. PIC: Simon Hulme

Decline in the ecological status of rivers in the Yorkshire Dales is a worry

Visitors enjoying the warm weather at one of Yorkshire natural attraction of Aysgarth Falls a triple flight of waterfalls, surrounded by woodland and farmland, carved out by the River Ure in the heart of Yorkshire Dales, near Leyburn, North Yorkshire. Picture James Hardisty.

Concerns over water quality of rivers in Yorkshire Dales

A footpath in the North Yorkshire area of the Yorkshire Dales National Park Picture: LDRS

Row over funding of rights of way maintenance in the national parks

Kilnsey Show. Picture By Yorkshire Post Photographer, James Hardisty. Date: 29th August 2023.

Yorkshire Dales' ‘show of support’ to most popular country show

Kilnsey Show, Upperwharfedale Agricultural Society.

Yorkshire Dales' premier country show urged to rethink storage proposals

Joanne Cox is not longer allowed to live in The Moorcock Inn and must close her tearoom

Council can't force owner of Yorkshire inn to turn it back into a pub

The Moorcock Inn at Garsdale Head

Enforcement action likely against Yorkshire landlady who turned pub into tearoom

Grassington

Fears 300 new homes planned for Dales villages 'would be bought by commuters'

Moorcock Inn owner Joanne Cox has applied to convert the pub into a tearoom and house

Investigation into breach of planning controls at 18th-century Yorkshire pub

The Pheasant Inn, Casterton

Owners of 18th-century Yorkshire inn withdraw plans to turn it into housing

Plans to transform a former fish farm near Grassington have won planners' backing

Plans to turn eyesore fish farm into Yorkshire Dales holiday let wins backing

Revised plans for an aparthotel (Image: Linton Regeneration Company)

New plans for aparthotel in Dales feature spa, gym, bowling alley and cinema

The site is part of a Barns and Walls Conservation Area

Planners refuse conversion of Dales barn over fears of 'suburbanisation'

Farmer Neil Heseltine, of Hill Top Farm, Malham, North Yorkshire is the chairman of Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority (YDNPA) and the National Park Authority. The YDNPA is set to go to out to public consultation on a new five year plan for the authority to cover 2025 to 2030. Picture By Yorkshire Post Photographer, James Hardisty.

Consultation invited on direction of Yorkshire Dales National Park from 2025

Long Preston, in the south-west of the Yorkshire Dales National Park

Plans for homes in Yorkshire Dales village given go-ahead despite objections

Malham, in the Yorkshire Dales National Park

Endangered pony centre in Dales wins mirror battle after row over hedge

Oughtershaw in the Yorkshire Dales National Park Picture: Google

Concerns raised over the high proportion of holiday cottages and second homes

Yorkshire Dales village of Muker

Plan to convert garage into holiday let in Yorkshire Dales village is refused

Lauradale Lane, in Wharfedale Picture: Google

Diving business to double staff after being granted permission for Dales site

Bainbridge Vets, Askrigg Picture: LDRS

Vets in All Creatures Great And Small Wensleydale village to live beside surgery

Marske Hall, near Richmond

Owner of Grade II-listed Dales mansion submits new scheme for its conversion

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