Terrington Parish Council

Welcome to Terrington Parish Council website. There will be an Extraordinary Council meeting on Tuesday 17th December 2024 followed by the next normal Council meeting on Monday 13th January 2025. Meetings start at 7:00pm and take place in the Village Hall. All parishioners are welcome to attend all meetings.

Terrington Parish Neighbourhood Plan

Thank you to all who submitted responses to the Draft Neighbourhood Plan. A final version of the Plan is currently in preparation for consideration at the next Parish Council meeting. See the Neighbourhood Plan page for more information.

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Dark Skies Friendly Kite Mark

The Howardian Hills is offering us the opportunity to be recognised as one its Dark Skies Friendly communities. The Parish Council has discussed the invitation already and Councillors are generally in favour of proceeding. They welcome the views of the wider community so please let your Parish Councillors know what you think.

As a first step, an audit of current lighting around the village has been conducted and overall we comply with the criteria though advice is available on any steps people can take to make improvements to their outside lighting. Any changes would be purely voluntary and could result in energy savings for households and businesses.

For useful information on why dark skies are important, what we can do to protect them and what you can do to improve external lighting see the Howardian Hills Dark Skies leaflet.

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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.

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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