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Knaresborough Town Council |
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Knaresborough Town Council is a parish council that has, like many of the large urban parishes, resolved to be known as a Town Council, which carries the right to a Town Mayor instead of a chairman.
Knaresborough is one of the 143 parishes within the Harrogate Borough Council area, which includes Ripon, Pateley Bridge and Boroughbridge. The Town Council has 15 members (councillors) with 5 councillors representing each of the three wards in the town, Knaresborough King James, Knaresborough East Ward and Knaresborough Scriven Park Ward. Elections for the council are held every four years when all of the seats are open to be contested. Town and parish councils have a limited range of powers but are consulted about, and can influence decisions on, a wide range of functions and services outside their control.
The Town Council from July 2010
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Note
LD - Liberal
Democrat |
Con - Conservative |
The Town Council own a playing field and allotments and have a Community Centre which was built with assistance - financial and practical - from the Borough Council, and a Lottery Fund grant from the English Sports Council (opened May 1998).
The Town Council office is in Knaresborough House on the High Street and is open Monday to Friday 9.00am to 12.30pm. Anyone wishing for information or advice can telephone or fax the office on 01423 864080.
Please address initial enquiries to the Town Clerk before contacting a Town Councillor. An answering machine is available outside office hours.
Knaresborough Town Council
Knaresborough House
High Street
Knaresborough
HG5 0HW
phone 01423 864080
Email enquiries: knaresboroughtc@btconnect.com
The Clerk of the Council is Mrs Nicola Smith
Information about Knaresborough can be found at Knaresborough Online - the many tourist attractions and events in Knaresborough can be found at Local Attractions and What's On or from the Tourist Information Centre. Recreation facilities and organisational information can be found at the Tourist Information Centre and the library.
Mayor of Knaresborough
The new Mayor of Knaresborough
will officially take up office this week.
Councillor Richard Hall, Lib Dem has been elected as Mayor for 2010/11, and
at the ceremony at Knaresborough House on Friday, May 14, he will receive
the chain of office from outgoing Mayor, Councillor Mavis Clemmitt. Councillor Hall's
Mayoress will be his wife, Mrs Rachael Hall. The Deputy Mayor will be Councillor
Jo Walton, Lib Dem, and Deputy Mayoress, Councillor Christine Willoughby, Lib Dem.
This will be Councillor Hall's second term of office as Mayor, he previously held
the position in 1999/2000. Councillor Hall has chosen two charities to support during
his year of office; these will be Scouting and Guiding groups in Knaresborough
and Help the Heroes. One of his early engagements will be the Mayor's Civic
Service due to be held on Sunday, June 27 at St John's Church and officiated
by Rev Elizabeth Sewell.