Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
North Yorkshire Council, known between 1974 and 2023 as North Yorkshire County Council, is the local authority for the non-metropolitan county of North Yorkshire, England. Since 2023 the council has been a unitary authority , being a county council which also performs the functions of a district council .
Description: Map of North Yorkshire, UK with the following information shown: . Administrative borders; Coastline, lakes and rivers; Roads and railways; Urban areas; Equirectangular map projection on WGS 84 datum, with N/S stretched 170%
The York city green belt is within the county of North Yorkshire. The policy's core function is to manage development around York and the surrounding area, preserving its setting and historic character, discouraging urban sprawl , and the convergence of outer villages into the city's built up areas. [ 1 ]
North Yorkshire is a ceremonial county in the Yorkshire and the Humber and North East regions of England. [note 1] It borders County Durham to the north, the North Sea to the east, the East Riding of Yorkshire to the south-east, South Yorkshire to the south, West Yorkshire to the south-west, and Cumbria and Lancashire to the west.
North Yorkshire is a non-metropolitan county and unitary authority area (legally known as the County of North Yorkshire), [4] in the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire, England. It covers seven former districts : Craven , Hambleton , Harrogate , Scarborough , Richmondshire , Ryedale and Selby .
North Yorkshire shown within England The county of North Yorkshire is divided into 4 districts . The districts of North Yorkshire are namesake districts , the City of York , Redcar and Cleveland , Middlesbrough , and parts are in the Borough of Stockton-on-Tees administered from Stockton, County Durham .
A deal for a York and North Yorkshire Combined Authority and Mayor of York and North Yorkshire between the UK government and the two councils was struck on 1 August 2022. [4] Legislation to establish the authority, encompassing the unitary authority areas of the City of York and North Yorkshire, was made on 19 December 2023.
Land area total of the green belt is 248,241 hectares (2,482.41 km 2; 958.46 sq mi) (1.9% of the total land area of England (2010). [11] Its coverage is within the South and West Yorkshire counties, with extensions towards Harrogate and Knaresborough in North Yorkshire and Chesterfield in Derbyshire.