We’re on our way to listen to your views

We want you to help to shape the future of county’s services

The biggest ever conversation in North Yorkshire is under way to help to shape priorities for vital services for everyone across the county.

Our Let’s Talk events and online engagement began this week. We want to gather the views of thousands of residents and businesses to help to form the bedrock for decisionmaking and policies for the new North Yorkshire Council, which will launch next spring.

The county council and seven district and borough councils will merge in the biggest restructuring of local government in the county for nearly 50 years.

Having one council will save millions of pounds by streamlining services and avoiding duplication. This money can support services so they are stronger and fit for the future, and fund local decisionmaking.

The new council will be the largest geographically in the country, but will have local at the heart of everything it does.

Working locally is the first topic for discussion in our Let’s Talk campaign. Teams from all eight councils are going out and about gathering the public’s views on how the new authority can best support local needs.

We want to listen to what matters to you where you live – whether that is education, affordable housing, climate change, public transport or something else.

And we are coming to talk to you where you meet – in the high street and at the market, in libraries and local groups.

Conversations will follow about money and the new council’s budget, as well as the proposed devolution deal for York and North Yorkshire, subject to councillors giving the go-ahead.

We value your views and want to listen to them, so please join the Let’s Talk conversation. Find out how above.