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Happy Christmas and New Year

The Chairman and Members of the Council wish all residents, community organisations and businesses of the Council's area, and colleagues in partner organisations, a very happy Christmas, and a healthy and prosperous New Year.

With particular thanks and best wishes to all who volunteer in the area.

Join us for:

• Community Carol Singing | 7.00pm Sunday 14 December 2025 | Crossgates Community Centre
• Our Carol Service | 7.00pm Tuesday 16 December 2025 | Seamer & Irton War Memorial Hall

Please see the Christmas page of this website for details and other arrangements.

A message from the Chairman

Welcome to the Website of Seamer Parish Council. 

Seamer Parish Council is constituted as a local authority and first met in 1894 under the Local Government Act of that year.

The Council covers a large rural area together with Seamer Village and Crossgates near Scarborough in North Yorkshire.

Take a look at What we DO!

Our Publication Scheme (Freedom of Information - Guide to Information), along with our Code of Conduct & Standing Orders, Terms of Reference and other Policies & Procedures are available on the Documents page of this website.

The Council is here to serve all of the residents of Seamer & Crossgates and we hope you will contact any Councillor or the clerk on issues affecting the Council's area. Please see the Members|Responsibilities page of this website for individual contact details for Members of the Council and the Contact page for details of the clerk.

The Council will do what it can within its powers to assist with matters raised but, with one part-time employee and proportionate to its low charge to residents’ Council tax, the Parish Council cannot reasonably act as a ‘call centre’ for matters which are the responsibility of the much larger North Yorkshire Council, North Yorkshire Police or any other statutory or public authority or emergency service. Rather enquirers will be advised how best to contact the relevant authority directly:

• see the North Yorkshire Council page of this website, for example most open spaces in Crossgates were adopted from developers by the former Scarborough Borough Council and are now owned and the responsibility of North Yorkshire Council.
• see the Police|Trading Standards page of this website, for example the Police’s advice is to report anti-social and offending behaviour promptly directly to them, with images if possible and safe to do so, and with as much detail as possible to increase the likelihood of identifying and dealing with those responsible.

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Residents are warmly invited to attend all of the following

Come and meet your Councillors 'drop in' events

The Council holds some informal ‘Come and meet your Councillors’ 'drop in' events each year. These get togethers are a great opportunity to 'drop in' to meet and discuss issues over a cup of tea, coffee etc. Drop in for a chat and refreshments any time during the session. Please see the Come & Meet Us 'drop ins' page of this website for further details. We would love to see you there!

Meetings

The temporary change in the law which allowed meetings of the Council to be held virtually ended on 6 May 2021, so all formal 'decision making' meetings must currently be held in person, as well as in public, although the Government is working towards allowing Councils to hold hybrid and virtual public meetings in the future.

Annual Parish Meeting (Assembly)

The Parish Meeting of the electors of the Council's area is required to assemble annually between 1 March and 1 June, and is usually held in late April or early May prior to the Annual Meeting of the Council. Please see the Council Meetings and Parish Meeting (Assembly) pages of this website for further details.

Meetings of the Council

Our annual and ordinary meetings are usually held on the second Tuesday of each month, alternately at Seamer & Irton War Memorial Hall, Main Street, Seamer, Scarborough, YO12 4QD and Crossgates Community Centre, Curlew Drive, Crossgates, Scarborough, YO12 4TP, commencing at 7.00 pm. Please see the Council Meetings and Agendas & Reports pages of this website for further details.

We look forward to seeing you!

Councillor Lynda Wallis

Chairman