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Mar 2024
Charity's partially-built flats in Harrogate demolished
Partially built supported living flats on Ripon Road in Harrogate have been demolished.
The charity Harrogate Skills 4 Living is behind the scheme to create accommodation for adults with learning disabilities and autism.
The building was to include six flats for people who need carer support throughout the day and night, plus sleeping accommodation for staff.
But work at the site, which is close to the New Park roundabout and opposite the former gasworks that is due to become a Tesco supermarket, had ground to a halt in recent months.
Last week contractors reduced the site to rubble .
The site on Ripon Road last month before it was demolished.
Harrogate Skills 4 Living, which provides care and support for people with learning disabilities and autism, was granted planning permission for a three-and-a-half storey building last year.
Chief executive Hadyn Moorby-Davies said:
The new contractors employed to build the site are Purpose Social Homes.
The plans approved by the North Yorkshire Council stated:
Originally formed 30 years ago as The Junction, Harrogate Skills 4 Living runs a day-skills centre hub on North Park Road.
Its services range from housing to employment and health to skills development. It recently started two social enterprises – the Harrogate Chocolate Factory and the Harrogate Chocolate Factory Café.
Computer generated images of how the building is supposed to look.
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