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North Yorkshire: what’s happening where you live

What the council itself has published on the five things it most shapes for a household: homes, getting about, the bill, the local environment and schools. Each line is quoted from the council’s own document, with the link. This page says what was decided or proposed; it never says whether it was right.

This page is built from official registers only; the council’s own publications have not been read yet, and every line below says so where that leaves a gap.

North Yorkshire Council: Unitary authority (unitary), England, Yorkshire and The Humber; part of the YNYC combined authority. GOV.UK lists it as a unitary council. ONS code E06000065.

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Housing

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Transport

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Council tax

Band D set by North Yorkshire for 2026–27: £2,036.32 of a £2,544.34 total bill in the area. MHCLG, Council Tax levels set by local authorities in England 2026 to 2027 (Open Government Licence).

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Environment

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Education

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Changes to schools in this area recorded by the Department for Education Updated automatically

No school here is currently recorded as proposed to open or close.

In the last twelve months: 8 opened (6 academy converter, 2 new provision), 9 closed (7 academy converter, 1 result of amalgamation/merger, 1 closure)

Embsay Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School (primary) — closed; reason recorded: academy converter, 30 April 2026
Gargrave Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School (primary) — closed; reason recorded: academy converter, 31 May 2026
Great Ouseburn Community Primary School (primary) — closed; reason recorded: academy converter, 31 August 2026
Hensall Community Primary School (primary) — closed; reason recorded: academy converter, 31 March 2026
Leeming and Londonderry Community Primary School (primary) — closed; reason recorded: result of amalgamation/merger, 12 April 2026
Masham CofE VA Primary School (primary) — closed; reason recorded: academy converter, 31 January 2026
Scarborough Pupil Referral Unit — closed; reason recorded: academy converter, 30 June 2026
Springwater School — closed; reason recorded: academy converter, 31 October 2025
West Burton Church of England Primary School (primary) — closed; reason recorded: closure, 31 March 2026
Embsay Church of England Primary School (primary) — open; reason recorded: academy converter, 1 May 2026
Gargrave Church of England Primary School (primary) — open; reason recorded: academy converter, 1 June 2026
Great Ouseburn Primary School (primary) — open; reason recorded: academy converter, 1 September 2026
Hensall Community Primary School (primary) — open; reason recorded: academy converter, 1 April 2026
Masham CofE Primary School (primary) — open; reason recorded: new provision, 1 February 2026
Meadow School — open; reason recorded: new provision, 19 August 2026
Springwater Academy — open; reason recorded: academy converter, 1 November 2025
Westwood Academy — open; reason recorded: academy converter, 1 July 2026

Get Information about Schools, DfE’s register of every school in England, refreshed daily (Open Government Licence). The register’s own reason is shown: most closures and openings are a school becoming an academy, which changes who runs it, not whether it is there.

What the council plans to spend, 2026–27

The budget for each service, as North Yorkshire reported it to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. The same headings, in the same order, for every council in England.

North Yorkshire: budget by service, 2026 to 2027
Service	Budget
Education services	£502.9 million
Highways and transport services	£31.0 million
Children's social care	£103.0 million
Adult social care	£338.9 million
Public health	£28.5 million
Housing services (general fund only)	£32.1 million
Cultural and related services	£38.3 million
Environmental and regulatory services	£106.3 million
Planning and development services	£17.1 million
Police services	none budgeted
Fire and rescue services	none budgeted
Central services	£43.5 million
Other services	£279,000
Total service expenditure	£1,241.9 million

Net current expenditure: net of sales, fees and charges; spending funded by the NHS, such as through the Better Care Fund, is excluded.A minus figure means the service’s income is budgeted to be more than its spending. “None budgeted” usually means another body runs that service here. Source: Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, Revenue Account Budget 2026 to 2027, individual local authority data (part 1), updated 11 June 2026 (Open Government Licence).

North Yorkshire in numbers

Official statistics for the whole council area. Each figure is the latest published, with the period it covers.

Total population: 635,270 people 30 June 2024 · Office for National StatisticsMid-year estimate of the total number of people
Median age: 48 years 30 June 2024 · Office for National StatisticsMedian age of people
Gross disposable household income per head: £27,703 2024 · Office for National StatisticsAverage income per person (£) after taxes and direct benefits
Gross median weekly pay: £605 30 April 2025 · Office for National StatisticsGross median weekly pay based on where people live (£)
Children in relative poverty after housing costs: 19.6% April 2024 to March 2025 · Department for Work and PensionsPercentage of children aged under 16 living in relative low income families After Housing Costs (AHC)
Claimant Count: 2.0% 2025 · Office for National StatisticsPercentage of people aged 16 to 64 who are claiming unemployment-related benefits
Average house price: £270,463 July 2026 · HM Land RegistryAverage monthly price of a property (£)
Housing affordability ratio (residence-based): 7.4 affordability ratio 1 April 2025 · Office for National StatisticsRatio of median house price to median gross annual residence-based earnings
Female healthy life expectancy: 65.4 years 2022 to 2024 · Office for National StatisticsAverage years expected to be lived in good health for females born in the given year
Male healthy life expectancy: 64.5 years 2022 to 2024 · Office for National StatisticsAverage years expected to be lived in good health for males born in the given year
Greenhouse gas emissions: 8.9 tCO2e per capita 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net ZeroGreenhouse gas emissions (tCO2e) per capita
Gigabit capable broadband: 82.6% 1 January 2026 · OfcomPercentage of premises that have coverage from a gigabit-capable service (download speeds of 1,000 Mbps or more)
Public electric vehicle chargers: 175.2 per 100,000 population 1 July 2026 · Department for Transport, sourced from ZapmapPublicly available electric vehicle chargers at all speeds per 100,000 people
Active businesses: 28,735 number of enterprises 2024 · Office for National StatisticsBusinesses with turnover or employment in current year

Gathered by the Office for National Statistics in Explore Local Statistics (Open Government Licence), refreshed daily. Some figures aren’t published for every nation, so the list can be shorter outside England.

Who runs the council

90 seats in 2026. Run by: Conservatives, as a minority administration. Open Council Data (public domain).

Councillors by party: Conservative and Unionist 42, Independent / Other 15, Liberal Democrats 13, Labour Party 10, Green Party (E&W) 5, Reform UK 4, The Liberal Party 1.

Next scheduled council election: 6 May 2027.

All 90 councillors, by ward

Andy Brown (Green Party (E&W)) — Aire Valley
John Weighell (Conservative and Unionist) — Aiskew & Leeming
Steve Mason (Liberal Democrats) — Amotherby & Ampleforth
Andrew Lee (Conservative and Unionist) — Appleton Roebuck & Church Fenton
Stephanie Duckett (Labour Party) — Barlby & Riccall
David Webster (Conservative and Unionist) — Bedale
David Ireton (Conservative and Unionist) — Bentham & Ingleton
Monika Slater (Liberal Democrats) — Bilton & Nidd Gorge
Paul Haslam (Independent / Other) — Bilton Grange & New Park
Robert Windass (Conservative and Unionist) — Boroughbridge & Claro
Mark Crane (Conservative and Unionist) — Brayton & Barlow
Mike Jordan (Reform UK) — Camblesforth & Carlton
Janet Jefferson (Independent / Other) — Castle
Carl Les (Conservative and Unionist) — Catterick Village & Brompton-on-Swale
John Cattanach (Independent / Other) — Cawood & Escrick
Roberta Swiers (Conservative and Unionist) — Cayton
Karl Arthur (Reform UK) — Cliffe & North Duffield
Peter Lacey (Liberal Democrats) — Coppice Valley & Duchy
David Chance (Conservative and Unionist) — Danby & Mulgrave
David Jeffels (Conservative and Unionist) — Derwent Valley & Moor
Nigel Knapton (Conservative and Unionist) — Easingwold
Tom Seston (Reform UK) — Eastfield
Clive Pearson (Conservative and Unionist) — Esk Valley & Coast
Philip Broadbank (Liberal Democrats) — Fairfax & Starbeck
Liz Colling (Labour Party) — Falsgrave & Stepney
Sam Cross (Independent / Other) — Filey
Philip Barrett (Independent / Other) — Glusburn, Cross Hills & Sutton-in-Craven
Heather Moorhouse (Conservative and Unionist) — Great Ayton
Mike Schofield (Green Party (E&W)) — Harlow & St. Georges
George Jabbour (Conservative and Unionist) — Helmsley & Sinnington
Chris Aldred (Liberal Democrats) — High Harrogate & Kingsley
Alyson Baker (Conservative and Unionist) — Hillside & Raskelf
Kevin Foster (Green Party (E&W)) — Hipswell & Colburn
Malcolm Taylor (Conservative and Unionist) — Huby & Tollerton
Michelle Donohue-Moncrieff (Independent / Other) — Hunmanby & Sherburn
David Hugill (Conservative and Unionist) — Hutton Rudby & Osmotherley
Michael Harrison (Conservative and Unionist) — Killinghall, Hampsthwaite & Saltergate
Greg White (Conservative and Unionist) — Kirkbymoorside & Dales
Hannah Gostlow (Liberal Democrats) — Knaresborough East
Matt Walker (Liberal Democrats) — Knaresborough West
Karin Sedgwick (Conservative and Unionist) — Leyburn & Middleham
Lindsay Burr (Independent / Other) — Malton
Felicity Cunliffe-Lister (Liberal Democrats) — Masham & Fountains
Simon Myers (Conservative and Unionist) — Mid Craven
Tim Grogan (Conservative and Unionist) — Monk Fryston & South Milford
Annabel Wilkinson (Conservative and Unionist) — Morton-on-Swale & Appleton Wiske
Subash Sharma (Labour Party) — Newby
Angus Thompson (Conservative and Unionist) — North Richmondshire
Steve Watson (Conservative and Unionist) — Northallerton North & Brompton
Caroline Dickinson (Conservative and Unionist) — Northallerton South
Eric Broadbent (Labour Party) — Northstead
Keane Duncan (Conservative and Unionist) — Norton
John Mann (Reform UK) — Oatlands & Pannal
John McCartney (Independent / Other) — Osgoldcross
Arnold Warneken (Green Party (E&W)) — Ouseburn
Andrew Murday (Liberal Democrats) — Pateley Bridge & Nidderdale
Joy Andrews (The Liberal Party) — Pickering
Stuart Parsons (Independent / Other) — Richmond
Andrew Williams (Independent / Other) — Ripon Minster & Moorside
Barbara Brodigan (Liberal Democrats) — Ripon Ure Bank & Spa
Peter Wilkinson (Conservative and Unionist) — Romanby
Derek Bastiman (Conservative and Unionist) — Scalby & the Coast
Tom Jones (Conservative and Unionist) — Scotton & Lower Wensleydale
Heather Phillips (Conservative and Unionist) — Seamer
Jack Proud (Labour Party) — Selby East
Melanie Davis (Labour Party) — Selby West
Steve Shaw-Wright (Labour Party) — Selby West
David Staveley (Conservative and Unionist) — Settle & Penyghent
Bob Packham (Labour Party) — Sherburn in Elmet
Caroline Goodrick (Independent / Other) — Sheriff Hutton & Derwent
Robert Heseltine (Independent / Other) — Skipton East & South
David Noland (Green Party (E&W)) — Skipton North & Embsay-with-Eastby
Andy Solloway (Independent / Other) — Skipton West & West Craven
Dan Sladden (Liberal Democrats) — Sowerby & Topcliffe
Andy Paraskos (Conservative and Unionist) — Spofforth with Lower Wharfedale & Tockwith
Bryn Griffiths (Liberal Democrats) — Stokesley
Andrew Timothy (Liberal Democrats) — Stray, Woodlands & Hookstone
Kirsty Poskitt (Independent / Other) — Tadcaster
Gareth Dadd (Conservative and Unionist) — Thirsk
Janet Sanderson (Conservative and Unionist) — Thornton Dale & Wolds
Cliff Lunn (Conservative and Unionist) — Thorpe Willoughby & Hambleton
Yvonne Peacock (Conservative and Unionist) — Upper Dales
Sam Gibbs (Conservative and Unionist) — Valley Gardens & Central Harrogate
Nathan Hull (Conservative and Unionist) — Washburn & Birstwith
Nick Brown (Conservative and Unionist) — Wathvale & Bishop Monkton
Rich Maw (Independent / Other) — Weaponness & Ramshill
Richard Foster (Conservative and Unionist) — Wharfedale
Neil Swannick (Labour Party) — Whitby Streonshalh
Phil Trumper (Conservative and Unionist) — Whitby West
John Ritchie (Labour Party) — Woodlands

Each councillor’s register of interests is on the council’s own website; we have not yet located the page. Councillors from Open Council Data as recorded after the May 2026 elections; a by-election since then may have changed one seat. Attendance and allowances are not shown.

This council’s meeting papers are not yet read automatically, so decisions and motions are not listed here; they are on the council’s website.

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