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May
30-home Kingsley development given final go-ahead
A plan to build 30 homes on the site of a former chicken farm in Harrogate has been given final approval.
Quarters Kingsley received outline planning consent to build the homes at Kingsley Farm in July 2023.
But its subsequent attempts to rubber-stamp the details have struggled to gain approval.
Now, councillors on North Yorkshire Council's Harrogate and Knaresborough area constituency planning committee have given the green light for the scheme to go ahead.
The decision comes despite some councillors raising concern over access to the site from Kingsley Road, which they said would cause the road to be used as a rat run and increase traffic flow.
Cllr Chris Aldred, a Liberal Democrat who represents the Kingsley area on North Yorkshire Council, said there were multiple access points along Kingsley Road to other residential areas, such as Hawthorn Place and Parklands View, which would cause a road safety issue.
He urged councillors to “put safety first” and defer the matter to another meeting.
Kingsley Farm is bordered by Kingsley Road to the right and Hawthorn Place to the left.
Meanwhile, Cllr Philip Broadbank, a Liberal Democrat who sits on the committee, said the access point on Kingsley Road would cause problems.
He said:
I think once it [the site] is developed and that access is used then we are going to have serious problems.
I have no problem with the layout and everything else, but the access is a serious concern to me.
But Will Rodgers, who spoke on behalf of the developer, told the committee that the development had not received any objections from the council’s highways department or any other statutory consultee.
He added that a road safety audit had also been carried out into the access to the site.
Meanwhile, council officers said the issue over primary access to the site had already been established at the outline stage and could not be revisited.
Councillors voted four to one to approve the application.
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