Recent housing survey
Following the creation of North Yorkshire Council (NYC) in April 2023, it has
a duty to prepare and adopt a local plan for the area. When adopted, this
will replace the existing local plans.
The new North Yorkshire Local Plan will guide future development and
conservation in the area until 2045. This plan covers North Yorkshire,
excluding the North York Moors and Yorkshire Dales National Parks, and
outlines their priorities for land use and development.
The call for sites was open from April 2024 to November 2025 and they
are now assessing the 2,000 + sites that have been submitted. Even if a
site is deemed suitable for development and is included in the Local Plan,
this does not mean it will necessarily be developed.
You can keep up to date with the North Yorkshire Local Plan and when
consultations will be held by registering your details on NYC planning
consultation portal. NYC is not currently running any consultations on the
local plan or sites it may contain. Other groups and organisations may ask
about the local plan or sites that are being put forward. We ask each
resident to reply to any survey circulated as they see fit. This is ultimately
not a Parish Council matter but a resident matter.
Community Resilience
Included with this paper copy of this letter is a new Community Resilience
Plan card. This is an updated version of one that you should have received
when you moved to the village. It has been simplified to include only
telephone numbers that should be used only in an emergency. In case of
an emergency, we would ask all Village Hall key holders to ensure that the
Hall is opened for use as a safe space and shelter should it be needed.
This is because we appreciate that named people may not be in the village
when an emergency happens.
If you need a further copy of the card or would like a hardcopy of this
information please email a request to the Clerk at newtonlewillows.pc@gmail.com
who will send you one.
Dates of future meetings
The Parish Council have set the dates for all our meetings for 2026. We
hope that you will be able to attend a meeting this year. All meetings are
held at 7 pm in the Bar/Green room in the Village Hall.
The dates for the meeting are:
Monday 11 May – AGM
Monday 29 June
Monday 7 September
Monday 2 November
Monday 14 December