Notification of Decision Meeting: Thursday 27th November 2025, 09:30. Details enclosed.
Please find attached notification of decision meeting to be held in order to determine the above-mentioned case received from Leeds City Council.
PLANNED ROAD RESTRICTION NOTIFICATION – TZ009RRT-WETH-CIVILS-049-02
Location: Tom Cat Lane, Bilton-in-Ainsty with Bickerton CP, Bickerton, Unknown
Description of works: Excavate to install approx. 62m telecoms cable, install x1 telecoms chamber and x7 tobies to link into existing telecoms apparatus as part of the fibre to the home scheme.
The Restriction will be in place for a period of 3 days between 26th November 2025 and 28th November 2025
The Road Restriction and any associated traffic management can be viewed using this URL link https://one.network/?tm=GB146326362
Regards
North Yorkshire Council
The Wild life and countryside act 1981 section 53, claimed public bridleway act Ingmanthorpe, between Sandbeck lane and Leeds boundary towards Bickerton.
Kath Windett has been engaged by Leeds city council as a consultant to assist with processing public path order applications. Kath is requiring evidence of public rights of way concerning an application the council received from a member of the public for a definitive map modification order (DMMO)
It may be that as a resident of Bickerton or Bilton in Ainsty , you have used the whole or part of this Bridleway which originally existed from Bickerton into Wetherby.
If you would like to help and make a statement please email it to
25/09/25 – UPDATE: THIS ITEM IS NOW CLOSED FOR COMMENT AND A DECISION WILL BE MADE BY LEEDS COUNCIL.
DO NOT SEND ANY FURTHER STATEMENTS
The Ministry have replied to the letter written about the expansion by Sir Alec Shelbrooke MP. The reply is attached.
Our MP, Sir Alec Shelbroke, has written to the relevant government agency regarding the pig farm expansion. His letter is attached .
Before the Parish Council meeting on May 19th, the council had an informal meeting with Neil and Jordan Newlove (pig farmers) and the residents of Southgate Lodge on Rudgate.
The Newloves are renting an area of the field alongside Rudgate directly opposite Southgate Lodge (see diagram). They are not renting the whole field and will not be operating alongside Turnpike Lane or Main street
The new area (1) will be used for individual shelters for a sow and her piglets bedded on straw, each sow and piglets have their own area. After two years the pigs will be moved to adjacent area (2) to allow the land to recover (see diagram). Then after another two years they move back to the original area and so on.
The Newloves confirmed that no additional traffic will pass through the village .
The farmers did not need to apply for planning permission for this work. However, an enforcement meeting has been arranged with the Planning Dept by County Councillor Andy Paraskos to ensure that all regulations are being followed.
It was suggested during the meeting that some screening might be appropriate and we are investigating the possibility.
UPDATE 22/05/25
Further to the Enforcement Notice issued by North Yorkshire County Council, they have now concluded their discussions and their reply is attached here.
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 85th% 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 85th% 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 .
