Our annual budget consultation - Let’s Talk Money – launched on 10 November to help pinpoint the key priorities for North Yorkshire Council’s budget for the next financial year. 

We are urging residents, businesses and stakeholders to help to shape North Yorkshire Council’s financial plans and outline their priorities for a host of services amid growing concerns over the impact of the Government’s reforms on local government funding.

The council is responsible for a wide range of essential services ranging from waste collection and recycling to providing social care, education and roads maintenance.

However, the authority is facing intense financial pressures in a situation mirrored across the local government sector, although the deeply rural parts of North Yorkshire mean that providing services to often remote communities increases costs significantly.

The survey will help to inform decisions on the 2026/27 budget and the Council Plan to 2030.

We spend about £1.3 billion every year delivering local services to people and businesses. These include:

• Supporting vulnerable people: 50 per cent of the council’s overall annual budget is used to fund support for vulnerable people, with the largest amount—32 per cent—going on adult social care and health. 
• Maintaining and upgrading essential infrastructure, including a major £82.5 million project to create a new stretch of the A59 at Kex Gill, addressing repeated landslips and improving transport links. 
• Providing social care and education, including a £3 million investment to increase specialist school places for children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). 
• Delivering leisure and wellbeing services, with 16 leisure venues across North Yorkshire, including 12 swimming pools. 
• Supporting more than 3,660 children and young people via the children and families service. 
• Collecting about 312,000 tonnes of waste from over 300,000 households each year, with approximately 43% reused, recycled, or composted.

We are also asking people to say how important our key priorities are to them.

Our key priorities are:

• Good quality affordable homes
• Promoting health and wellbeing
• Providing education
• Providing social care support
• Reducing the impact of climate change
• Supporting the local economy
• Getting around North Yorkshire 

Let’s Talk Money closes on 21 December 2025 - please share your views with the council and encourage your colleagues, communities, friends and family to do the same.

There are several ways to take part in Let’s Talk Money:

• You can fill in an online survey here.
• If you would prefer, you can pick up a paper copy from your local library or main local office and return it in the envelope provided.
• You can also email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or call 0300 131 2 131 (please say ‘Let’s Talk Money’ when prompted) to request a survey.
• You can request a survey by writing to:

Let’s Talk

North Yorkshire Council

County Hall

Northallerton

DL7 8AD

Accessible formats of the survey are also available on request.

Share your views about early retirement.

North Yorkshire Council are carrying out research to help understand more about the experiences of early retirement. The findings will help shape future support for people who are wanting to return to work.

North Yorkshire Council are interested in hearing from those who have retired early, aged 50 to 64, living in the Craven or Ryedale areas, about your:

• reasons for retiring 
• early retirement experiences
• views about returning to paid work

The survey is confidential and only takes five to 10 minutes to complete.

For further information and to take part in the survey please visit: https://www.northyorks.gov.uk/early-retirement-survey  

If you have any further questions about the survey please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Health & Adult Services

North Yorkshire Council

County Hall

Northallerton

DL7 8AD

Web: www.northyorks.gov.uk

Kirkbymoorside qualifies for the Priority Services Register (PSR).

The Priority Services Register (PSR) is a free UK wide service which provides extra advice and support, including when there’s an interruption to your electricity, gas or water supply.

Click here for more information

SAND BAGS

Should you need any sandbags, these are available for public collection from the yard at Kirby Mills Garage. The stock of sandbags is located on the left immediately beyond the vehicle barrier. If you need to make a collection when the garage is closed and the barrier is down, access is still permissible by foot. In this case it's worth taking along a wheelbarrow to transport the bags from the store to your vehicle.

Any issues relating to the properties managed by Thirteen Group on Windmill Avenue, Manor Woods MUST be reported by phone 0300 111 1000 weekdays from 8am to 7pm, or 9am to 3pm (Sat) or email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 

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North Yorkshire Council is the Local Flood Authority.

Contact North Yorkshire Council in an emergency by telephone on 0300 131 2 131

Highways: To report a highway emergency please contact 101 and speak to North Yorkshire Police. Highway emergencies include:

• any highway hazards such as flooding, mud or diesel spillages, carriageway debris, fallen trees
• any road or footway defects which may be a danger to highway users

You can report a non-emergency highway issue on our potholes and road condition issues page.

Flood and water management - Information about how North Yorkshire Council tackle local flood risks and what is being done to protect communities.