A developer can now move ahead with plans for a micropub at Knaresborough’s train station.
Harrogate Borough Council has approved the plans for the Track and Sleeper with a few conditions and alterations, including that work must start before September 2023.
The Track and Sleeper will take over a couple of vacant units at the Grade II listed building. It will serve real ale and gin.
Both the Knaresborough Civic Society and the Friends of Knaresborough Station wrote in support of the plans. The council also said the plans were sympathetic to the building.
These are the new plans including planters.
The community groups raised concerns about a lack of toilets and a “potential nuisance” from the pub’s customers. The landlord will need to monitor those concerns going forward.
Instead of the timber barriers previously submitted, the amended plans inclued moveable planters with barriers in between.
The council believes that because the pub is bringing vacant units back into use that it will be beneficial for the building. It also supported the plans to reinstate the fireplace inside the pub.
