Richmondshire District Council members, who have voted to increase the authority s environmental efforts THE frailty of a ruling Coalition group’s grip on power at a council has been exposed as a controversial swimming pool plan saw the same number of elected members vote for the move as against it. As a vote calling for further consideration of pumping a third of Richmondshire District Council’s annual council tax income into Richmond’s swimming pool was tied 12-12, chairman Councillor Clive World was forced to use his casting vote to pass the plan. The ruling Richmondshire Together group of ten Independents and three Liberal Democrats came close to its first defeat since taking power in 2019 after Conservative, Green and Independent councillors questioned whether the authority could afford spending £1.4m on overhauling the pool.
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Youngsters with Cllr John Blackie in Richmond Swimming Pool in 2002 A LOCAL authority has approved pumping more than a third of its annual council tax income into the first major overhaul of a swimming pool in nearly 30 years, after being warned the council could not afford to do so. Alongside agreeing to spend an estimated £1.44m keeping Richmond swimming pool wind and watertight, re-glazing the pool and installing green features such as solar panels, Richmondshire District Council’s cabinet gave the go-ahead to give a new 20-year lease and funding agreement to Richmondshire Leisure Trust. The charity which was handed the management of the authority’s pool in 2004 on the understanding it would make the facility both more cost-efficient and self-sufficient.
THE leader of one of England’s largest councils by area is calling for the Government to make allowing elected members to vote through decisions remotely a permanent option. Councillor Angie Dale will ask Richmondshire District councillors to support writing to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government urging that the temporary Covid-19 measures change to the meeting rules be made permanent so that after May the council had the flexibility to hold meetings remotely or physically or by using a combination of the two. Cllr Dale is also urging the council to back writing to Rishi Sunak MP, North Yorkshire County Council, town and parish councils and the Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority asking for support for this flexible approach to council meetings.
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