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Public accountability meeting – 29 June 2021


Meeting overview

This month’s meeting focuses on:

  • North Yorkshire Police –  Road Safety
  • North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service – Road Safety

Ask your question on this month’s hot topics

The full procedure for asking questions at this meeting is available here: Procedure for public questions

  • To ask a question in advance 
    Send your question to info@northyorkshire-pfcc.gov.uk before the day of the meeting. Please include your name and address with your question.
  • To ask a question during the meeting using Twitter
    To ask a question during the live broadcast, post your question on Twitter using #NYscrutiny
  • Not all questions may be able to be used, but they will inform the Commissioner’s questioning and the general discussion.

Attendees

  • Chair – Philip Allott –  Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner
  • Andrew Brodie – Chief Fire Officer, North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service
  • Thomas Thorp – Interim Assistant Chief Executive & Deputy Monitoring Officer, Office of the Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner
  • Caroline Blackburn – Interim Assistant Chief Executive & Deputy Monitoring Officer, Office of the Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner
  • Jonathan Foster – Deputy Chief Fire Officer, North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service
  • Phil Cain –  Deputy Chief Constable, North Yorkshire Police
  • Mark Pannone –  Assistant Chief Constable, North Yorkshire Police
  • Jenni Newberry – Head of Commissioning and Partnerships, Office of the Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner
  • Peter Mountain – Policy and Scrutiny Manager, Office of the Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner
  • Emma Aldred –  Superintendent Specialist Operations, North Yorkshire Police 
  • Michael Roffe –  Road Policing Group & Safer Roads Inspector, North Yorkshire Police
  • Richard Fletcher –  Traffic Bureau Manager, North Yorkshire Police
  • Dave Winspear – Head of Prevention and Protection, North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service 

Agenda

No Time Item Lead
1 13:30 Attendance and introductions Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner
2 13:30 Minutes of previous meeting and Actions All
3 13:35 Public questions Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner
4 13:55 Road Safety Funding from AJ1 Project Presentation Jenni Newberry
5 14:05 Joint Presentation on Road Safety Police and Fire
6 15:05 Performance update Police
7 15:25 Performance update Fire
8 15:45 Public questions Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner
9 15:55 Any other business All
10 16:00  27th July  2021

Meeting papers

Public questions

  • 1. Scarborough – Cycling on footpaths
  • 2. B6160 South of Kettlewell – speeding motorbikes – noise – no one taking any responsibility
  • 3. Sutton-in-Craven village – speeding & parking on pavements
  • 4. Cawood – Mororcycles racing
  • 5. York – vehicles blocking cycle route
  • 6. Wistow, Selby – speeding vehicles
  • 7. Cawood – racing motorbikes
  • 8. Cawood – noise from motorcycles
  • 9. A65, A59 and the Ingleton to Hawes – noise from motorbikes
  • 10. Cawood Bridge down Sherburn Street and Bishopdyke Road – noise from motorbikes and speeding
  • 11. Leyburn – Noise from motorbikes
  • 12. Hawes – noise and speeding motorbikes
  • 13. Sand Hutton – Speeding vehicles
  • 14. Cawood – bishopdyke road and wistowgate – Speeding vehicles / motorbikes
  • 15. A65 road at Katy’s Well in Coniston Cold, Skipton, 30mph area – Speeding vehicles / motorbikes / SCV can not operate at this end of village – can fixed camera be used?
  • 16. Noise from motorbikes
  • 17. Should drivers have to retake their driving test every five years?
  • 18. Iburndale, Sleights Whitby – noise from motorbikes
  • 19. Whitley – Please can SCV and Community Speed Watch operate in the same area
  • 20. Knaresborough – Near Nidd Gorge car park – speeding vehicles
  • 21. Cawood – Speeding vehicles / dangerous driving noise
  • 22. Malham / Airton – Speeding through villages

Watch the questions being answered

Questions about speeding or noisy motorcycles

  • Kettlewell
  • Cawood
  • A65,A59
  • Leyburn
  • Hawes
  • Iburndale, Whitby

Other questions on road safety

1. Scarborough – Cycling on footpaths

3. Sutton-in-Craven village – speeding & parking on pavements

5. York – vehicles blocking cycle route

6. Wistow, Selby – speeding vehicles

13. Sand Hutton – Speeding vehicles

17. Should drivers have to retake their driving test every five years?

19. Whitley – Please can SCV and Community Speed Watch operate in the same area?

20. Knaresborough – Near Nidd Gorge car park – speeding vehicles

22. Malham / Airton – Speeding through villages

Questions received during the meeting

Alison Hume @MsAlisonHume
@northyorkspfcc #NYscrutiny will you be trialling fixed average speed cameras in #Cowling in #Craven & other #NorthYorkshire villages blighted by #Speeding?
Is this the “piece of work” @philAllottPFCC made reference to? Thank you.

Watch live

  • YouTube : https://youtu.be/Qp14IfhWHRw
  • Commissioner’s website:http://bit.ly/PAM29June2021