Redrow Homes are pushing east with a development of 56 new homes in the sought-after East Riding of Yorkshire village of Swanland, near Kingston upon Hull.
The award-winning homebuilder has acquired a site of just under five acres off West Wold and has planning consent for a range of two, three, four and five-bedroom properties, including 14 affordable homes and four bungalows.
Residents in Beverley, Hornsea and Tickton are being encouraged to join a summer campaign to boost the recycling of clothes, bedding, shoes and other textiles.
Waste and recycling officers at East Riding of Yorkshire Council are holding a series of textile collection events, inviting residents to bring along their old duvets, sheets, towels, clothes and shoes so they can be recycled and disposed of properly.
The Beverley Guildhall is offering ‘a little something extra’ during August. From Friday, 2 – Friday, 30 August there will be a table-top exhibition of paintings by local artist Tony Snowden.
The exhibition is entitled “Out of the Rain: People in Everyday Places”, and is in addition to the current local history exhibition, Edwardian Beverley: a snapshot in time.
MP Graham Stuart says he is extremely disappointed with the decision to close Beverley’s Crown Post Office.
Mr Stuart had joined others in campaigning to keep the postal service at the office in Register Square. The MP also met with bosses of the postal service handing them a petition signed by residents.
Beverley Crown Post Office will be closed and the service transferred to nearby WH Smith store on Toll Gavel.
Despite the public consultation and intervention by local councillors and the MP, Post Office bosses confirmed it will close.
A new exhibition, “Edwardian Beverley: a snapshot in time”, opens at the Beverley Guildhall on Wednesday, 24 July.
Using photographs taken by ordinary people with the newly-developed Box Brownie cameras, this well-illustrated exhibition shows the people and places of the town as they were at the start of the 20th century.
Steamer Trading Beverley’s store is closing down just months after the business was saved by ProCook.
Located on Toll Gavel the closure of the store will leave a huge gap in the high street. The sad part this latest blow in Beverley’s Historic Core comes just weeks after The White Company opened.
MP Graham Stuart has met with post office bosses in a last-ditch attempt to save Beverley’s Crown Post Office from closure.
The MP for Beverley and Holderness also raised the issue surrounding other Post Offices in Hedong and Pattrington.
Residential developers, Queensway Properties will host an open day to showcase their unique apartments at Garden Village Shopping Centre on Saturday, 4 May 2019.
The event will recreate the Reckitt family’s original opening ceremony of the Garden Village development which took place in the 1900s.
Feedback from the consultation and the petition in relation to the future of Beverley’s Crown Post Office will be carefully reviewed.
The Post Office has also cleared up the issue surrounding WH Smith advertising for jobs saying this normal practice.
CWU General Secretary says that the Tories are to blame for the decline of the British Highstreet.
His comments come following a poll the CWU commissioned after the Post Office announced the closure of 74 branches, including the Crown Post Office in Beverley.
An exhibition looking at the long history of boat building in Beverley opens at the Beverley Guildhall on Wednesday, 20 March.
The exhibition has been called ‘Trawling Through Time’. It will be linked it with the project of the same name currently underway in the East Riding Archives.
Post Office Director Roger Gale has been handed a petition by MP Graham Stuart.
Mr Stuart presented 1700 petition signatures objecting to the proposed closure of Beverley’s Crown Post Office.
Local Councillor David Elvidge says he is deeply disappointed with the Post Office over their plans to relocate to WH Smith.
Cllr David Elvidge also says that he feels people are not being offered a full and proper consultation.
Should cars be allowed to drive along Toll Gavel in Beverley to help boost the high street? It is a question that has to be worth the discussion.
Like towns around the UK, Beverley needs to find ways to adapt to protect the town centre businesses.
Beverley’s Crown Post Office relocation to the nearby WH Smith is not all bad news. In fact under the proposals put forward by the post office, there are far more benefits.
Sadly it seems these benefits have been lost in all the noise being created by a small group of people.
Andy Parrish the Communication Workers Union Branch Secretary for Hull & East Riding says Beverley deserves to have a Crown Post Office.
Mr Parish was one of the campaigners who took to the streets to voice their concerns over the Post Office plans to relocate services to WH Smith store on Toll Gavel.
MP Graham Stuart has praised the community for pulling together over the proposed relocation of the Post Office in Beverley.
Mr Stuart joined Union Members and members from all political persuasions in Beverley as they look to put pressure on the Post Office to rethink their plans.