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Mar 2023
200-home Pannal Ash scheme 'fails to address infrastructure', say residents
A plan for 200 homes at Harrogate’s former police training centre “fails to address” increased pressure on infrastructure in the area, say residents.
The plans from Homes England and Countryside Properties include the conversion of several former training centre buildings into 16 homes and building 184 new properties.
Homes England, which is the government’s housing agency, already had permission to build 161 homes on the site but wanted to increase this by 23% to 200 homes by building on three planned football pitches and one cricket field.
Harrogate Borough Council granted outline permission for the scheme to go ahead in December 2021.
But Harlow and Pannal Ash Residents’ Association has criticised the plan.
In a letter to the council, the group raised concern over the “over-intensification” of affordable housing, the impact on carbon emissions and disruption caused by construction traffic.
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Hapara added the proposal did not address how the increased pressure on infrastructure will be addressed.
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Homes England appointed Countryside Properties in a £63 million contract to build the homes and a reserved matters application has now been submitted for the scheme.
This includes details such as landscaping, how the homes will look, and the site layout.
The developers said in a planning statement that the scheme will be of “high quality”.
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