Did you know with a Digital subscription to Yorkshire Post, you can get access to all of our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more. The move by park authority chair Derek Twine came after it was claimed the controversial change could conflict with his authority’s own five-year management plan to promote access to services and help young families stay in the area. A recent meeting of YDNPA’s parish forum heard from concerned parish councillors unhappy with NYC’s new policy of only offering free home-to school transport to a child’s nearest school.
Advertisement Advertisement At the meeting, YDNPA member Yvonne Peacock, who is also a senior councillor at Tory-controlled NYC, described the policy as “a mess”. She said: “I totally and utterly disagree with the policy, and I did everything I possibly could prior to July to try and stop it. “I've since been working to stop it ever since or at least find some way around it.
“Personally, I think it's a mess.” Councillor Beverley Rutter, a parent and vice-chair of Reeth, Fremington and Healaugh Parish Council, told the meeting: “Our main concerns are the roads. Advertisement Advertisement “We've asked them to look at it and they won’t entertain doing risk assessments until children have applied for schools.
” Coun Rutter suggested the change in policy was in conflict with the YDNPA’s five-year management plan. Among the aims of the plan is to retain access to .
