Scarborough Council appoints new councillor to ‘inquorate and unable to operate’ Fylingdales Parish Council
Fylingdales Parish Council is currently “inquorate and unable to operate” due to a number of recent resignations, according to Scarborough Council.
All council meetings must have quoracy, which requires a certain number of councillors present at meetings for proceedings to be legal, but recent resignations have left Fylingdales Parish Council “unable to operate”.
Fylingdales is a civil parish in the Scarborough district and is located south of Whitby, within the North York Moors National Park.
However, an urgent decision by Scarborough Council’s chief executive has sought to rectify the issue with the approval of a temporary appointment of a parish councillor.
According to a report by the borough council’s director, Lisa Dixon, Scarborough Council has powers “to enact temporary appointments to a parish council until such a time as an election can take place and a quorum re-established”.
In a decision on Friday September 23, Scarborough Council’s chief executive, Mike Greene, approved the appointment after receiving a nomination.
According to the report, the nomination for a temporary appointment had been received from a former councillor of Fylingdales Parish Council, Dick Hoyle.
“Richard Martin Robinson, known as Dick Hoyle” was last elected to Fylingdales Parish Council in May 2019 with 298 votes, according to Scarborough Council’s website,
According to an article published in the Moors Messenger in May 2017: “After studying and working in Landscape Architecture, Dick Hoyle and his wife Pam moved to Robin Hoods Bay in 1977, to start a new life in tourism.
“Since then, Dick has been in a team that has been instrumental in coming up with innovative ideas to improve and extend the tourist season in the Bay.”
The agenda of an upcoming meeting of the Fylingdales Parish Council scheduled for Wednesday September 28 also includes an agenda item for the co-option of Dick Hoyle onto the parish council.
Scarborough Council’s website states: “The chief executive approves the appointment of the individual set out in paragraph 5.1 of the attached report to act as parish councillor for Fylingdales Parish Council until such time as an election can take place and quorum re-established.”