Archive for Month: December 2015
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FLOODING INFORMATION – UPDATES
30th December 2015Please 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…
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UPDATE FROM THE MET OFFICE – OUTLOOK FOR WEDNESDAY/THURSDAY
28th December 2015The 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…
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FLOODING UPDATE – LATEST SITUATION 28TH DECEMBER
28th December 2015Please 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…
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FLOODING UPDATE 26/12/15 – 1946hrs
26th December 2015See 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…
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FLOODING SITUATION – LATEST UDPATE
26th December 2015See 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…
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FLOOD WARNINGS – INFORMATION UPDATES
26th December 2015I 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…
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HAPPY CHRISTMAS AND BEST WISHES FOR 2016
20th December 2015I would like to wish all the readers of this website a Very Happy and Healthy Christmas and a Good New Year for 2016.
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RAIL FRANCHISE UPDATE
20th December 2015The 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…
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AIRPORT LINK ROAD – ADDITIONAL CONSULTATION EVENTS
16th December 2015Further 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…
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PLANNING APPLICATION – 15/07094 – Proposed new roundabout junction to serve to land to east of A660 Leeds Road, opposite The Poplars, Bramhope (UDP PAS allocation and emerging housing allocation HG2-017) together with pedestrian crossing points, new pedestrian/cycle route and landscaping
16th December 2015I 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…