Tim Flanagan

1 week ago | thestrayferret.co.uk | Tim Flanagan

Today, the Stray Ferret reveals why North Yorkshire Council’s planning officers were unable to support Ripon Cathedral’s £8 million annexe plan for Minster Gardens. The controversial proposal, submitted in January 2023, involved the felling of 11 mature trees, including a 200-year-old protected veteran beech, to make way for a two-storey standalone building on a public open space currently owned by the unitary authority.

1 week ago | thestrayferret.co.uk | Tim Flanagan

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2 weeks ago | thestrayferret.co.uk | Tim Flanagan

Hopes of securing the future of Ripon's ancient market have taken a step in the right direction, according to a campaigning councillor. Pauline McHardy, who with fellow city councillor Barbara Brodigan, raised a 'save our market' petition signed by more than 3,500 people, has welcomed news that North Yorkshire Council is, 'in principle' willing to give traders the market stalls that are currently erected and dismantled by council workers.

2 weeks ago | thestrayferret.co.uk | Tim Flanagan

To continue reading this article, subscribe to the Stray Ferret for as little as £1 a weekAlready a subscriber? Log in here. The disagreement over whether Ripon should have a city centre police office has continued. Last month Ripon City Council called for Jo Coles, York and North Yorkshire's Deputy Mayor for Policing, Fire and Crime, to rethink her decision to abandon proposals for a drop-in police office at Ripon Town Hall.

2 weeks ago | thestrayferret.co.uk | Tim Flanagan

This article is free to read. To access all our content, please subscribe here and support local independent journalism. It costs just 14p a day. Ripon's Big Sky Wheel is back in operation this morning following the installation of a replacement generator. The 33-metre-high wheel on Market Place South was temporarily closed yesterday afternoon following a fire that started when a loose piece of insulation entered the exhaust of the original generator.