Theme | Action | Partners | Priority | Timescale | Achieved |
Our community services | To seek ways of restoring a Post Office | Parish Council | High | Ongoing | |
Post Office Counters | |||||
Local businesses | |||||
To improve local health facilities, potentially in conjunction with the new school project | Parish Council | High | Ongoing | ||
Primary Care Trust | |||||
School Governors | |||||
To seek funding for improvements to the Reading Room | Reading Room Committee | High | Ongoing | ||
Funding agencies | |||||
To press for the provision of digital TV services as soon as frequencies become available | Parish Council | Low | Long term | ||
Hartoft Parish Meeting | |||||
TV service providers | |||||
Our housing needs | To seek changes to National Park policies that prevent permanent occupation of additional houses and if possible to positively encourage permanent use. | Parish Council | High | As part of the preparation of the LDF | |
Hartoft Parish Meeting | |||||
All residents as consultees | |||||
National Park | |||||
To request the District Council to carry out a housing needs survey and to examine the feasibility of providing a small number of affordable housing units. | Parish Council | High | Imminent | ||
Hartoft Parish Meeting | |||||
Ryedale DC | |||||
National Park | |||||
Our Village School | To secure a purpose-built school designed as a multi-purpose building for the community. | School Governors | High | Imminent | |
Local Education Authority | |||||
National Park | |||||
To improve community education and secure funding for the resumption of the Community Room. | School Governors | Medium | Ongoing | ||
Funding agencies | |||||
Our religious life | To examine the feasibility of obtaining additional land for a small cemetery for when the Churchyard is full. | Parochial Church Council | High | Ongoing | |
Local landowners | |||||
To provide a wheelchair-accessible entrance to the Church avoiding the need to pass through the School yard. | Parochial Church Council | High | Ongoing | ||
School Governors | |||||
National Park | |||||
Funding agencies | |||||
Our security and safety | To liaise with the Police to discuss ways in which communications might be improved, perhaps with development of the Neighbourhood Watch mentality | North Yorkshire Constabulary | Medium | Imminent | |
Whole community | |||||
To discuss with the County Council whether safety improvements could be made at identified trouble spots, eg by cutting back overhanging vegetation. | Parish Council | High | Ongoing | ||
Hartoft Parish Meeting | |||||
County Council | |||||
Our transport needs | To provide bus shelters at Hill Cottages, Green Head and Rosedale Abbey | Parish Council | High | Imminent | |
County Council | |||||
National Park | |||||
To consider the feasibility of public transport improvements, including the use of demand-responsive services | Parish Council | Medium | Ongoing | ||
County Council | |||||
National Park | |||||
Our businesses | To set up a Business Support Group to assist the development and retention of small businesses. | Local businesses | Medium | Imminent | |
Business Link Partners | |||||
To press for mobile phone coverage throughout our area | Parish Council | High | Imminent | ||
Hartoft Parish Meeting | |||||
National Park | |||||
Mobile phone companies | |||||
To investigate the provision of broadband internet to all parts of our area | Parish Council | High | Ongoing | ||
Hartoft Parish Meeting | |||||
British Telecom | |||||
Local Education Authority | |||||
Our visitors | To retain the Village Caretaker to keep Rosedale East and West tidy and to assist visitors. | Parish Council | High | Ongoing | |
National Park | |||||
Funding agencies | |||||
To adapt some footpaths to a standard suitable for people with disabilities and to maintain them to a high standard. | Parish Council | Medium | Ongoing | ||
National Park | |||||
Owners and farmers | |||||
To publish a guide to walks around the valley. | Parish Council | Medium | Ongoing | ||
Local businesses | |||||
To ensure the retention of the public toilets at Rosedale Abbey | Parish Council | High | Ongoing | ||
Ryedale DC | |||||
To provide village signs on the approaches to Rosedale Abbey from | Parish Council | Medium | Imminent | ||
the Egton and Hutton-le-Hole roads and at small settlements in our area | County Council | ||||
Our heritage | To set up a Heritage Group to research and publish the history of the valley, including the recording of memories of the older people. | Heritage Group (to be formed) | High | Imminent | |
To provide interpretive boards at remains of Rosedale Priory, the former mines, kilns and old railway. | Heritage Group | High | Ongoing | ||
Parish Council | |||||
National Park | |||||
To carry out a feasibility study into | Heritage Group | Medium | Imminent | ||
the development of a local heritage centre and a model of the Priory on the original site | Local businesses |