Readers’ Letters is a weekly column giving you the chance to have your say on issues affecting the Harrogate district. It is an opinion column and does not reflect the views of the Stray Ferret....
Readers’ Letters: ‘Harrogate’s roads are deteriorating before our eyes’
Readers’ Letters is a weekly column giving you the chance to have your say on issues affecting the Harrogate district. It is an opinion column and does not reflect the views of the Stray Ferret. Send your views to [email protected]. This letter follows...
Editor’s Pick of the Week: Tim Stedman returns, a new mayor awaits and Ripon prepares for 1,300 homes
No corner of the Harrogate district has been immune to new housing in recent years but the sheer scale of the 1,300-home Clotherholme development will alter Ripon forever. Planning approval was passed by a whisker last year. Since then, the government agencies behind...
Plans submitted to extend Pateley Bridge cemetery
A planning application has been submitted to extend Pateley Bridge Cemetery. The application, which was tabled to North Yorkshire Council, outlines plans to build new traditional and natural burial sites, ash internments and parking spaces on land adjacent to the...
BT answers Ripon Civic Society’s call to repair historic city centre telephone kiosks
Telecoms giant BT has answered a call from Ripon Civic Society to carry out repair work on the four vandalised telephone kiosks that stand in line in the city centre. Richard Taylor, co-chair of the heritage watchdog, raised concerns about the dangerous condition of...
Plans for car wash on busy Harrogate road withdrawn
Plans to build a car wash and valeting station on Skipton Road in Harrogate have been withdrawn. A planning application was submitted to North Yorkshire Council in December for the facility, which would have been created on the car park of a former builder’s merchants...
Historic Harrogate Arms reopens for first time in a decade
The Harrogate Arms Café has opened to the public today. The site, which sits in the Royal Horticultural Society Harlow Carr Gardens, has been closed since 2014. It was originally built in 1844 by the then-owner of the estate, Henry Wright, along with a Bath House....
City council supports rejuvenation plans for Ripon’s Spa Baths
Ripon City Council has given its backing to plans designed to return Ripon’s iconic Spa Baths to its former Edwardian glory. Ripon-based property investment and development company Sterne Properties Limited, is seeking planning approval from North Yorkshire Council...
Grammar guerrilla takes Harrogate road sign matters into own hands
A vigilante has taken action against the council’s decision to eliminate apostrophes from Harrogate district road signs. The move comes after North Yorkshire Council last week told the Stray Ferret it will abolish apostrophes from road signs after a new sign was...
The Yorkshire cafés putting sustainability at the heart of their business
(Image: Yolk Farm and Number Thirteen) From dutifully separating plastics and glass for recycling, to thrifting second hand clothes and furniture, there are many small ways we can be kinder to the planet. As consumers it can feel we can only go so far; extensive...
Mayoral candidates hoping for a cleaner, greener Harrogate
Three candidates hoping to be the first Mayor of York and North Yorkshire were in Harrogate this week for an environment-themed hustings. It was organised by charity Zero Carbon Harrogate with Felicity Cunliffe-Lister (Liberal Democrat), Keith Tordoff (Independent)...
Hampsthwaite’s Memorial Hall set for £230,000 extension
Hampsthwaite's Memorial Hall has been given the green light for a £230,000 extension and upgrade. North Yorkshire Council has granted approval for a single-storey front, side and rear extension that will enable the building to provide more activities for villagers....
Otley Road cycleway extension: a welcome boost for active travel or a costly folly?
When transport chief Cllr Keane Duncan announced last year phase two of the Otley Road cycleway had been scrapped, it appeared to signal the end of the project. It therefore came as a surprise this week when Harlow and Pannal Ash Residents’ Association's spring...