Terrington Parish Council

Welcome to Terrington Parish Council website. The next Council meeting will take place on Monday 11th August 2025 at 7:00pm in the Village Hall. All parishioners are welcome to attend all meetings.

Terrington Parish Neighbourhood Plan

The Draft Neighbourhood Plan has now been submitted to North Yorkshire Council. See the Neighbourhood Plan page for more information.

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Dark Skies Friendly Kite Mark

Terrington has now been recognised by the Howardian Hills National Landscape as a Dark Skies Friendly Community, one of the first four to be so recognised. Cllr Bill Winning and the other three Chairmen of their Parish Councils received the plaques to be displayed in their villages from Cllr George Jabbour, Chair of the Howardian Hills Parnership and Estelle Hook, Manager of the Howardian Hills National Landscape at an event in Bulmer Village Hall on 15 July 2025. Ampleforth Abbey has also been awarded the Dark Skies Friendly kite mark for massive changes it’s made to its lighting, to the benefit of its students and with savings in energy costs to the School.

Thanks to our low levels of lighting we can see the Aurora Borealis and the Milky Way while owls and no fewer than 8 species of bat thrive here and the nocturnal moths and other insects they feed on. To achieve the designation, the support of the community through its Parish Council was needed and a successful audit of existing levels of lighting was carried out by members of each community led by Richard Darn, who is driving the initiative for the Howardian Hills. Each parish put forward a demonstrator project where changes to lighting would bring about improvement to themselves and the community. The demonstrator in Terrington was Terrington Hall School where advice and funding from the Howardian Hills Dark Skies initiative is bringing about more focused use of external night-time lighting. Another good demonstrator is Flat Top Farm where more cost effective, directional lighting is being introduced.

The Dark Skies Friendly Community logo can be used by our tourism, schools and local businesses in social media and other promotional material. It will also let people who are thinking of coming to live in the community know what is very special about Terrington. For useful information on why dark skies are important and what you can do to improve your own external lighting see the Howardian Hills Dark Skies leaflet.

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Submitted Development Sites in Terrington Parish

The map below shows the five sites that have been submitted through the North Yorkshire Local Plan Call for Sites in Terrington Parish.

All sites submitted up to May 2025 are shown and further submissions, if any, will be added on a six-monthly basis.

Important: No assessment work has been completed at this stage. NYC are not consulting on these sites or accepting comments. Full consultation will take place when further work has been completed, and NYC is able to say which sites are likely to be recommended for allocation or dismissed.

The submission of a site for consideration does not necessarily mean that the site will be taken forward.

Site 0001
Location: Land to east of Mayfield Cottage, Terrington
Submitted use: Residential
Site area (Ha): 0.76

Site 0002
Location: Land off North Back Lane, Terrington
Submitted use: Residential, open space
Site area (Ha): 1.19

Site 0003
Location: Ganthorpe Farm, Ganthorpe
Submitted use: Residential, open space
Site area (Ha): 5.39

Site 0004
Location: Land off South Back Lane East, Terrington
Submitted use: Residential
Site area (Ha): 0.48

Site 0005
Location: Land to the east of Mowthorpe Lane, Terrington
Submitted use: TBC
Site area (Ha): 0.02

THE PARISH COUNCIL WILL ARRANGE A PUBLIC MEETING DISCUSSION WHEN THE CHOSEN SITES ARE ANOUNCED.

Cllr Bill Winning (Chairman Terrington Parish Council) - February 2025

See also Call for sites for the North Yorkshire Local Plan.

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Issues from previous meetings

• Parking on the footpath on Church Lane This forces pedestrians to walk on the road where they are in danger from vehicles turning into Church Lane from Main Street. The Council is atttempting to prevent parking on the footpath, so far with no effect.
• Road markings and signage There has been no progress on painting the road markings on the centre of the road at the rise near Little Terrington, nor on signs on Mowthorpe Lane and Cliff Hill.
• Cemetery improvement work Necessary work on the stone boundary walls has been identified and trees need attention. An assessment is being carried out and quotations for the work are being obtained.
• Swift boxes The Council wrote to the planning authority in May 2021 to request it to use its powers to encourage/require developers and planning applicants to include swift and/or other bird boxes/bricks in their developments. No response has been received.

Times of shop, post van, surgery

Links to other web sites of interest

The links below open the web pages in a new tab.

• Terrington Archive - has maps and walks together with a range of other information about the parish
• Terrington Village Hall
• Howardian Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty
• North York Moors National Park