A MISTAKE by a Ryedale sub-committee has cost the owner of a Chinese takeaway at Norton an extra £40 planning fee.

The Central Area Planning Sub-Committee imposed an 11pm closing time on the food shop as a condition of planning permission because a similar closing time had been placed on another application.

But the other applicant had specifically asked for the early closing time.

Now the owner of the Chinese takeaway has to pay an extra £40 to ask for the restriction to be lifted. The owner, Mr TS Cheung, said most of his business was between 11pm and midnight.

Councillor Elizabeth Shields said she was disturbed Mr Cheung was having to pay the extra planning fee simply because the committee had made a mistake. She asked whether the fee could be waived.

The chairman, Councillor John Dodsworth, agreed it was against natural justice but said there was no alternative. Although the committee had been wrong, Mr Cheung had to pay for it.

 

FARNDALE Estate is about to change hands. Negotiations for the sale of 4,3000 acres in the dale are “virtually complete”, said a spokesman.

Asking price for the land, which includes 22 let farms and residential property, was £1.5m.

“It would be accurate to say that that is the sort of figure involved,” said an official of Knight, Frank and Rutley, selling agents of Boroughbridge.

The deal was likely to be finalised early in the spring.

Farndale Estate has been owned by a Warwickshire solicitor, Mr J A Stancer, of Hollins Lodge, Farndale, since 1975.

 

TWO contrasting men received OBEs in the New Year’s Honours. Max Jaffa has been entertaining audiences at Scarborough every summer for the past 21 years.

Prof Will Mellers retired this year as head of the music department at York University.

Both men have a taste for the popular and serious side of music.

Max Jaffa is well known for his enterprising performances of famous popular composers and his light touch with the classical greats.

He went to Scarborough for one season with his Spa Orchestra 21 years ago and liked it so much that he has been back every year since.

Prof Mellers has done a good deal of work to promote serious consideration of popular music, and has written works on such stars as Louis Armstrong and The Beatles.

Aged 67, he founded the music department in 1964, a year after the university opened.

A lifetime’s career in nursing has been rewarded with an OBE for Miss Elizabeth Logan.

She has been chief nursing officer first for York and then North Yorkshire during the past 12 years.

Miss Logan, aged 56, of Back Lane, Stillington, trained at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London.

From the Malton Gazette & Herald this week in 1982

 

RYEDALE parish councillors protested about a district council proposal to take over street lighting in the district and bring it up to a general standard.

At a meeting of the Parish Councils’ Association in Malton Town Hall some members feared that electricity poles would mar the beauty of villages.

Others said they already had street lighting which they had paid for themselves by a special parish rate. They did not see why they should help to pay for other villages’ lights.

It was explained that once the street lighting was brought up to standard in the district it would be handed over to the county council for maintenance. But the council would not insist on installing lighting if a parish objected.

 

WHITEWALL Quarry, Norton, which is working an unauthorised seven acres of land, should be allowed to continue subject to stringent conditions and eventual landscaping and restoration.

But after the seven acres is finished there should be no more quarrying at Whitewall, Ryedale District Council development and planning committee recommended.

Its recommendations will now go to North Yorkshire County Council.

From the Malton Gazette & Herald this week in 1975