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Nov 2020
Towns and villages across the district were targeted by developers while Harrogate had no local plan or five-year land supply.
A proposal by Gladman Land to build 75 homes in Killinghall was initially refused planning permission by Harrogate Borough Council.
It said the development “would cause significant harm to the form of the village and to the landscape character, which includes the Nidd Gorge Special Landscape Area and a number of public rights of way, by its manner of extending the built form of the village into open countryside”.
In October 2016, the company appealed against the decision
The Planning Inspectorate dismissed the draft Harrogate local plan as being “of little weight”, saying that it considered the main issues to be whether the council could now demonstrate a five-year supply of deliverable housing land.
After hearing arguments from both, he concluded that Harrogate needed to make provision for 3,857 homes over the period 2016-2021.
This was considerably higher than the 390 per year originally calculated by HBC.
Killinghall is just one of the areas in the district which feels it is "under siege from development".
Residents fear the whole fabric of the village has changed as more and more houses are built.
With growing congestion and a lack of local amenities, they worry the formerly small settlement is fast becoming a suburb of Harrogate.
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