Liberal Democrat councillors are celebrating after the East Riding of Yorkshire Council has finally brought forward a planning application to construct the long-awaited Beverley Park & Ride.
The Liberal Democrats on East Riding Council have been campaigning for two years to persuade the council to bring forward the construction phase of the Park and Ride, but their proposals put forward to full Council on four occasions over the last two years have always been blocked by the ruling Conservative group.
It’s a fierce, never-ending debate among residents of God’s Own Country as to where the best place to live is. One name that always crops up in the top-rated Yorkshire domiciles, though, is Beverley.
This town has it all; stunning architecture, world-beating views, and friendly people, and it’s no surprise that so many homeowners want to buy here.
Meet the shepherdess welcoming new arrivals to Risby Homes’ Shepherd’s Rest in Beverley, a 74-home development of two, three and four-bed properties located off Shepherd Lane close to Minster Way.
Alongside 35 new home buyers, Risby Homes’ site coordinator Amy Barrett has welcomed three new lambs to her flock so far this spring, a flock which inspired the name for the latest development by award-winning East Yorkshire housebuilder Risby Homes.
A new roundabout along Beverley’s Minster Way is fully open to traffic after construction work was completed on the £1.38m scheme.
East Riding of Yorkshire Council began work on the new roundabout – between the Long Lane overpass and the Lincoln Way roundabout – in November last year.
East Riding of Yorkshire Council has submitted a planning application for its proposals to improve the A164 and the Jock’s Lodge Junction near Beverley.
Subject to planning permission being granted, the council intends to carry out a major overhaul of the road system to replace the junction, which currently links the A164 and the A1079, in order to improve congestion problems on one of the East Riding’s busiest roads.
Rainbow signs thanking NHS staff and carers in the East Riding for their work during the COVID-19 outbreak are to be installed on five roundabouts by East Riding of Yorkshire Council.
A trip to the Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition in Beverley in 2018 has inspired one young visitor to complete a fundraising walk from Beverley to York, to raise money to save rhinos.
Acacia Van Dyk, aged 10 and from Cottingham, visited the exhibition at the Treasure House last year, which showed winning photographs from 2017, and was moved by the stunning and shocking picture she saw of a rhino with its horns removed.
Beverley-based Lovel Developments has submitted plans for the next phase of East Riding of Yorkshire Council’s housing masterplan for the town after securing permission for an initial project to build 189 homes.
The Council’s planning committee has now approved the first phase of the scheme south of Willow Lane and Philip Lovel, Managing Director of Lovel Developments, said the decision opens up an area of 14.25 hectares of land which is part of the masterplan.
Around 40 new jobs could be created in Beverley if plans for retail park led by a Lidl supermarket along with a selection of leisure outlets are approved.
A £1.6 million project to improve Swinemoor Lane in Beverley for motorists, cyclists and residents has been completed, after six months of work by East Riding of Yorkshire Council