The Parish Council are concerned about the speed of motorists travelling along the B1224 .  A survey was agreed with NYC, which took place over 7 days.   When this was received a copy was sent North Yorkshire Police for their comments, which are below :

Comment below from North Yorkshire Police regarding our survey:

“”Our road safety outcomes are determined in two main ways. Firstly, we collate the data involving killed and seriously injured collision statistics and use these to identify the main areas where we want to deploy our Safety Camera Vehicles. These “KSI” routes make up the majority of the main roads across North Yorkshire and we would look to deploy the most to the locations with the highest number of collisions and then vary this accordingly as we look at the statistics for the other roads across the county. Secondly, there are roads that are highlighted to us via our Speed Management Protocol process. This is a process whereby members of the public can submit a concern about roads in their area, speed data will be gathered and an appropriate response put in place. Roads with a relatively high speeding problem will be referred to the Safety Camera team for Enforcement or to the Highways Agency to recommend an engineering outcome. Roads with a relatively low / no speeding problem will be referred to the Community Speed Watch scheme. For all of the information collated as part of these two processes, we use both the mean speeds and 85^th% speeds as you have gathered below. In order for us to implement an Enforcement outcome with the Safety Camera Vehicles, we would be looking at either the mean or the 85^th% speeds (or both) to be breaching our enforcement threshold of 10% + 2mph across the relevant speed limit.

For Bickerton and the B1224, this was highlighted to us through collision statistics collation and as a result, we have a number of Safety Camera Vehicle locations along the entirety of the B1224 within North Yorkshire borders running approximately from the A1(M) to the A1237. Three of these Safety Camera locations are in and near to Bickerton itself and looking at the deployment history for these three locations throughout 2024, I can see the following data:

Site 1 – 17 visits, 31 offences, 23 of which were in Speed Awareness Course criteria

Site 2 – 16 visits, 14 offences, 11 of which were in Speed Awareness Course criteria

Site 3 – 14 visits, 1 offence in Speed Awareness Course criteria

You can monitor this yourself via our public facing data log available on the North Yorkshire Police website on the following link: Safety Camera Deployment | North Yorkshire Police

If you feel that there is a specific speeding problem at a particular time or day of the week that isn’t already being addressed through the presence of the Safety Camera vehicles, then please let me know and I can look to adapt our deployment strategy and incorporate alternative times.””

The Parish Council will be looking at any other options that might help slow down the traffic on B1224.

A site meeting was held in Bickerton between Councillors and a representative of NYC at the end of May and this is a map of agreed work to be done by North Yorkshire Council .

PRECEPT INCREASE 2024-25

As advised previously, the cost of replacing and repairing Parish Assets during 2023 has had an impact on the Parish precept request for the next financial year commencing on 1 April 2024.

All Council Tax Bills will increase now that Parish Councillors have confirmed the requested Parish Precept for 2024-25, from the County Council. The Parish Precept is one of five components of the overall Council Tax Bill.

To illustrate the effect that this increase will have, the table below shows the Parish Precept part of the overall Council Bill for this year and next, for properties in bands C to G.

Councillors were concerned to advise everyone how the recent vandalism is affecting household costs.

Please find attached a statement regarding the vandalism to the community benches in Bickerton