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Welcome to the Grewelthorpe Parish Council website.

In the pages of the website you will find all you may wish to know about your parish council; who your councillors are, what the parish council does – and can do, how it is organized, what it spends and how it is funded.

If you wish to contact the parish council and ask a question about something in parish area, please use the contact page. Your message will be directed to the Clerk.

We, the Parish Council, sincerely hope you will find this website useful. If you think it can be improved, please let us know.

The Grewelthopre Civil Parish is an area lying in the North Yorkshire Council unitary authority, England. It is situated 3 miles (5 km) south of Masham and 6.2 miles (10 km) north of Ripon. It is located in the Nidderdale area of outstanding natural beauty.

Grewelthorpe Parish Council was established in 1894 and celebrated its centenary in 1994.

This tier of local government has seen an ever-increasing responsibility placed upon it due to an ever-changing bureaucratic landscape. Changes within the law have been felt at the parish level by the introduction of the Localism Act of 2011, and the Audit and Accountability Act of 2014. A number of other pieces legislations either recently passed or currently being laid before parliament have resulted in greater responsibilities and duties for Parish Councils and, from a resident's perspective, a more local place to access information and raise concerns.

The Council is an elected body with five seats filled by residents who either live or work in the village. Their primary function is to ensure that the Parish is efficiently and economically run using a proportion of the annual Council Tax income, known as “the precept”.

The Parish Council has a broad range of responsibilities some of which can be summarized below:

  • Provision of Playgrounds and Play Equipment,
  • Engaging with other local Parish Councils on matters that affect us all,
  • Working with North Yorkshire Council on traffic matters,
  • Managing a number of public open spaces,
  • Making representations to other local and national bodies, on issues that affect the local community,
  • Statutory consultations on planning issues, working to influence Planning Authority decisions, based on Councillor's local knowledge.

Whilst there are limited powers to make decisions, Parish Councils do have the ability to negotiate with, and the power to influence, those other organisations, particularly North Yorkshire Council, that do make the final decisions.