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Apr 2021
County council to buy Cardale Park site for care facility
North Yorkshire County Council is in talks to buy land previously earmarked for a mental health facility at Cardale Park, Harrogate.
The council confirmed it has set money aside to purchase land at the site, which is owned by Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust.
The land had previously been given approval for a 36-bed mental health facility, following the closure of Harrogate District Hospital’s Briary Unit, which helped adults with mental illness.
However, those plans were dropped in 2019 and inpatients on the unit were sent to Foss Park Hospital in York instead.
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Dale Owens, assistant director for commissioning and quality at the county council, said:
Cllr Jim Clark, a Conservative councillor who sits on the West Yorkshire Joint Health Overview and Scrutiny Panel to represent North Yorkshire, told the Stray Ferret he was pleased the site was going to be used.
He said:
The trust, which runs mental health services in Harrogate, has relocated services following the closure of the Briary Wing.
The unit’s mental health crisis team moved to The Orchards in Ripon last year.
Despite assurances that the move was not a “long term solution”, the trust has yet to find a new base for the service.
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