Gargrave Village Hall NEXT week’s planning committee meeting of Craven District Council will take place at the council offices in Skipton after emergency legislation to allow online meetings came to an end. It will also mean the annual council meeting on May 25 will have to take place in the larger venue of Gargrave Village Hall. A legal challenge by Hertfordshire County Council, Lawyers in Local Government and the Association of Democratic Services Officers failed to achieve an extension of the legislation, which meant a return to physical meetings from last Friday. Councillor Richard Foster, leader of Craven District Council, said: “It is disappointing that councils have been instructed that face to face meetings must resume, and that we are unable to continue holding remote meetings. However, we have been given no choice in the matter. Therefore, face to face council meetings will resume.