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Sept 2021

Last Updated: 08/09/2021
Environment
Environment

Harrogate town centre offices to be converted into apartments

by Calvin Robinson

| 09 Sept, 2021
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An office block on Cambridge Road in Harrogate town centre is to be converted into apartments. Harrogate Borough Council has given permission for the plan to go ahead.

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The office block on Cambridge Road in Harrogate town centre, which is set to become apartments.

A plan to convert an office block in Harrogate town centre into new apartments has been given the go-ahead.

Harrogate Borough Council approved proposals to transform the building on Cambridge Road into eight apartments.

Developers Lake House Investments, which is based near Brighouse, submitted the plans for the three-storey building.

The plans would see the first and second floors converted for residential use. The ground floor is currently occupied by bakers Greggs and a YMCA charity shop.

In its proposals, Lake House said the site had “excellent transport links” and was just a few minutes walk from the train station.



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As a result, the developer said no parking would be necessary.

It said in its planning documents:

“Given the sustainable town centre location close to a range of services and amenities, no off street parking is considered necessary as any impact to any pre- existing problems of access, road safety or traffic flow would be minimal.
“Visitor parking will be provided by local pay and display on street spaces.”


A similar application to convert the offices to apartments was approved by the council in 2019.