NEW affordable houses planned for a York village look set to get the go-ahead - despite fears the development will be out of character and lead to the loss of trees.

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• Councillors are set to meet to examine the benefits and risks to North Yorkshire of multi-million-pound battery energy storage plants. The move comes amid growing

  The move comes amid growing concerns from local residents and community leaders over a wave of schemes being proposed for open countryside sites within the county.

• It has been clear for some time that there was never enough money set aside for the York Outer Ring Road project, the council’s finance spokesperson has said.

  Cllr Katie Lomas, York Council’s finance executive member, told the Local Democracy Reporting Service (LDRS) inflation in construction costs meant it was right that the project is looked at again.

• Parents took their 15-month-old son to York Hospital with an infected finger – and found he had heart disease.

  Olivia Abbott and Callum Raywood, from Easingwold, said a nurse told them their son, Zak, had a heart murmur while being checked over at the hospital.

• THREE people have had an “altercation” in a York car park, say police.

  North Yorkshire Police said the incident involved a woman in a white Land Rover and a man and a woman in a blue car at Monk Bar Car Park in St John’s Street around 1.30pm on February 2.

• BREAKING: Power cut hits York – hundreds in dark by unplanned outage

  A power cut left hundreds of people in the dark in York.

• A well-known York business has branded month-long roadworks on its street as "devastating".

  Bradley’s Jewellers in Low Petergate has hit out over the recent closure of Low Petergate – a typically high-footfall street surrounding York Minster

• Three people were taken to hospital after a crash on a major road in East Yorkshire.

  Humberside Police said three vehicles were involved in the crash on the A1079 near Market Weighton at about 2pm on Sunday, February 2.

• York’s decades-long wait for a plan setting out local development could be over if councillors back it next week.

  The draft Local Plan, which allocates sites for house building, economic development and provides the basis for deciding planning applications, is set to go before councillors on Thursday, February 27.