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11

Oct 2022

Last Updated: 11/10/2022
Community
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Cycle path, housing and more on agenda for Harlow Hill residents

by Vicky Carr

| 11 Oct, 2022
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From housing developments and cycle lanes to the upcoming reorganisation of local government in North Yorkshire, Harlow and Pannal Ash Residents' Association (HAPARA) has a busy agenda for its AGM.

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Residents of the Harlow Hill and Pannal Ash areas of Harrogate will gather tomorrow night to discuss the issues they face as a community.

From housing developments and cycle lanes to the upcoming reorganisation of local government in North Yorkshire, Harlow and Pannal Ash Residents' Association (HAPARA) has a busy agenda for its AGM.

Chairman Rene Dziabas said the long-delayed West Harrogate Parameters Plan - setting out a plan for infrastructure to support thousands of new homes in the area - was likely to be among the topics generating the most interest.

He told the Stray Ferret:

"We still have over-riding concerns about the infrastructure for these successive developments - public transport, paths, cycle paths, hospitals, schools.
"We work with a number of parish councils and they hold similar views to us."


This will be the first time HAPARA has held an in-person AGM since 2019, thanks to the covid pandemic. In the intervening three years, many new households have arrived in the area, and the group is keen to welcome them alongside long-standing residents.

Though it encourages people to sign up as members, anyone can go along to the AGM and, unlike a parish council, it has no defined geographical boundary, so is open to anyone who wants to join.




Read more:



  • Contractor for Harrogate's Otley Road cycle route to be appointed in autumn

  • Council approves long-awaited West Harrogate Parameters Plan






As well as the changes that have taken place in the area in recent years, the group will look at what is ahead for local residents.

While phase one of the Otley Road cycle path has been largely completed, and phase two is scheduled to begin "shortly", according to North Yorkshire County Council, phase three - from Harlow Moor Road to Cardale Park - remains contentious among residents, according to a survey of residents by HAPARA this year.

Mr Dziabas said he hoped the new North Yorkshire Council would keep to its word of engaging added:

"We are also trying to introduce some local issues. A couple of residents are doing a presentation on low traffic neighbourhoods.
"If we can get something like that, an idea from grass roots, and if we can make the beginnings of something, that would be nice.
"Money is going to be tight and there is going to be less money around over the next few years than there is now.
"If you engage with local organisations, the people you are engaging with are doing it for free and there's a lot of knowledge and a lot of professional people in those organisations. If you keep an open mind, you can tap into it.'


The HAPARA AGM takes place at Harlow Community Centre (The Green Hut) on Harlow Avenue on Wednesday, October 12 from 7pm. The full agenda is available here.