A former church in Dallowgill, near Ripon, is under consultation to be sold to an academy trust and turned into an education centre for young people.

Dallowgill St Peter, a Church of England church, was built between 1843 to 1846 along Greystone Head. The remote church was closed in May 2017 due to a dwindling congregation.

The Church Commissioners, the body that deals with the sale of churches, published a proposal to sell the site this week.

If agreed, the church would be sold to Delta Academies Trust for an undisclosed fee and changed into a non-residential education centre.

The trust owns a number of schools, secondary and primary, across Yorkshire.

In the plans the church is described as an “annex” to another of the trust’s nearby developments.

Just a few minutes north of the church, the academy trust is developing a former primary school into a large outdoor education centre.

The Delta Trust has invested £1.5million into the refurbishment of the former school. The trust described it as the “jewel in the crown of Delta’s outdoor education provision”.

The graveyard will not included in the sale of the land. It is the responsibility of Yorkshire Water after being bought in the 1950’s for the construction of a reservoir that eventually fell through.

The public have been invited to offer their thoughts before September 7 and send them to closedchurches.reps@churchofengland.org.

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A total of 465 cases of the Delta variant have been confirmed in the Harrogate district, according to the latest government data.

The number, which represents cases up to July 7, is an increase on the 331 recorded in the district up to June 30.

Meanwhile, a further 90 covid cases have been reported in the Harrogate district according to Public Health England figures.

It takes the total number of cases in the district since last March to 9,225.

The district’s seven-day covid rate of infection has increased to 377 people per 100,000 – the highest in North Yorkshire.

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The North Yorkshire average is 294 and the England rate is 295.

However, the number of patients being treated for covid at Harrogate District Hospital has fallen to two.

No covid-related deaths have been reported at the hospital since April 11.

A total of 216,710 vaccinations have been given in the district, according to Public Health England statistics.

The number includes 119,378 people receiving a first dose and 97,332 second doses.

A total of 331 cases of the Delta variant have been confirmed in the Harrogate district, according to latest government figures.

The number represents cases up to June 30 – and is a 42% increase from the 233 that were reported for the seven days up to June 23.

In separate data, a further 70 covid infections were recorded in today’s daily figures.

According to Public Health England, the total number of cases in the district since last March stands at 8,615.

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However, no covid-related deaths have been reported at Harrogate District Hospital since April 11.

The covid death toll at the hospital remains at 179.

Meanwhile, the district’s seven-day rate has reached 200 per 100,000 people for the first time since January.

Elsewhere, the North Yorkshire average is 184 and the England rate is 191.

The number of cases of the Delta variant in the Harrogate district has nearly quadrupled in the last two weeks.

According to latest Public Health England figures, 233 people tested positive for the variant in the week to June 23.

The figure is almost four times as high as it was in the week to June 9, when 61 confirmed cases were recorded.

Health managers first reported a “small number” of cases of the Delta variant were confirmed in North Yorkshire last month.

Weekly cases of the Delta variant in Harrogate district. Graph: the Stray Ferret. Data: Public Health England.

However, despite a surge in infections in recent weeks, just three people are currently being treated at Harrogate District Hospital for covid, according to the latest government data.

Daily cases of covid in the Harrogate district have reach double figures throughout June.

The graph below highlights how since the relaxation of lockdown measures on May 17 daily infections have increased. But over the same period the number of people in hospital with covid has remained low.

Additionally, no covid-related deaths have been recorded at Harrogate District Hospital since April 11, according to NHS England data.

This suggests the vaccination programme is keeping people alive and out of hospital.

A total of 211,352 vaccinations have been given across the Harrogate district. Of those, 115,764 were first doses and 95,588 were second doses.

Daily new infections of covid (blue line) and number of patients (green line) in Harrogate District Hospital since May 17. Graph: the Stray Ferret. Data: Public Health England.

Meanwhile, the district’s seven-day covid rate of infection has risen to 151 per 100,000 people.

The North Yorkshire average is 134 and the England rate is 147.

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