Archive for Month: December 2015

Please find below information that you or someone you know may find useful. Please see below links to advice on safely clearing up after floods. Government/Public Health England advice https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/floods-how-to-clean-up-your-home-safely  Yorkshire water https://www.yorkshirewater.com/household/help-advice/in-an-emergency# Link to flooding information on Leeds City Council  website including details of how homeowners and businesses who are severely affected can contact…

The latest update from the Met Office, received at 14:33hrs on 28th December is below. “Met Office forecasts continue to highlight this Wednesday as a day with gales and further heavy rain across North East England, Yorkshire and The Humber. This latest bout of severe weather is all associated with an Atlantic storm, which is…

Please find below the updates I have received in the last 36 hrs. The Council’s IT system crashed due to the flooding so I have been unable to send anything out until now. Sunday 27th @ 21:07 “Firstly, apologies for lack of updates today – major IT failure resulted in loss of email, system and…

See latest update below from the Emergency Planning Team: Extensive flooding along both River Aire and Wharfe.  River Aire is showing a drop in levels at Cottingley Bridge and Saltaire now, so the EA best guess is that we can expect the River to peak in Leeds at Armley 11pm to midnight tonight, and at…

See latest update from the Emergency Planning Team, below: Have just finished the Environment Agency Flooding Teleconference. Met Office reports that we are due another several hours of persistent rain, with two high level intensity bursts of rain forecast for this morning. The intense band of rain should leave our area and head further North…

I have received several updates on flood warnings from the Council in the last 24 hrs. I will keep you updated. Latest messages are below: Several Flood warnings have now been issued:- for the River Wharfe at Ilkley, and at Wetherby the River Aire from Esholt, through Rodley, Newlay, Kirkstall , The Calls, Neptune St…

I would like to wish all the readers of this website a Very Happy and Healthy Christmas and a Good New Year for 2016.

The new rail franchise for running, amongst others, services on the Harrogate line (includes Horsforth station), will start in April 2016 and will be run by Arriva Rail North Ltd and TransPennine Express. The Northern franchise is for 9 years with a possible 1 year extension and TransPennine is for 7 years with a possible…

Further to my previous post I can now provide further details of the initial public consultation on the A65 – Airport – A658 Link Road. After pushing for additionl events these have now been organised, see below. “This period of initial public consultation has now been extended for a further month to end 26 February 2016 and a…

I have received notice of the above planning application which has been submitted by Miller Homes. The Senior Planner in this case has advised as follows: “We have received a new planning application for a revised roundabout on the A660 In Bramhope. It is to serve the emerging phase 3 site allocation site and the…