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    Oct 2022

    Last Updated: 03/10/2022
    Environment
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    53 homes on Bilton's Knox Lane recommended for approval tomorrow

    by John Plummer

    | 03 Oct, 2022
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    Councillors have been recommended to approve the scheme at tomorrow's planning meeting, which will be broadcast live online.

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    Site layout for the Knox Lane scheme.

    Councillors have been recommended to approve a planning application to build 53 homes off Knox Lane in Bilton tomorrow.

    Harrogate Borough Council's planning committee is due to meet tomorrow to vote on the scheme. The Queen's death caused the meeting to be postponed last month.

    A 30-page report to councillors by case officer Andy Hough recommends they approve the application by developer Jomast, subject to certain conditions, such as no objection from the local lead flood authority.

    However, the councillors could decide to vote against the officer's recommendation and reject the scheme. The meeting will be broadcast live at 2pm on the council's YouTube page.

    Mr Hough's report says:

    "Amendments to the plans reducing house numbers from 73 to 53 is welcome and the scheme is considered to now be in compliance with development plan policy.
    "The site at present represents a transition from the suburban development that is characteristic of the Old Trough area, to the more vernacular loose form of frontage development situated at the hamlet of Knox.
    "The frontage to the site has a very rural feel. To aid transition, the houses situated on the Knox Lane frontage have been set back into the site and are to be constructed at low density, behind new additional planting."


    The site is allocated for development in the Harrogate district Local Plan 2014-35, which outlines where planning can take place in the district.

    Residents have said the scheme will decimate an idyllic and historic part of Bilton.




    Knox Lane

    Knox Lane, leading to Spruisty Bridge





    Traffic and flooding fears


    Paul Haslam, a Conservative who represents Old Bilton on Harrogate Borough Council but does not sit on the planning committee, has raised various objections to the flood and traffic measures.

    They include concerns about flooding to surrounding houses on Knox Lane. Cllr Haslam said in a post on his Facebook page:

    "This is a high flood risk route which after storms occur leaves the pathways directly adjacent to the Grade Two listed Spruisty Bridge underwater, the most recent event was early February 2020. Houses along Knox Lane between the site entrance and the bridge are also susceptible."


    Cllr Haslam also raised fears about flash flooding from sewers affecting houses outside the development area and the potential discharge of sewage into the water course at Oak Beck.

    He also said he wanted reassurance that "the traffic resulting from this site is not exacerbating traffic problems within Bilton".



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    • GPs 'extremely concerned' Knox Lane housing will put pressure on health services

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