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Oct 2024
Retrospective planning consent expected for developer's double yellow lines in Harrogate
The company that owns and runs a Harrogate business park looks set to receive retrospective planning consent for double yellow lines it painted without permission two years ago.
Hornbeam Park Developments Ltd added the markings, which signify ‘no parking at any time’, to Hookstone Park when it converted a large unit there into five smaller ones with car parking in 2022.
Hookstone Park is a cul-de-sac near Morrisons in Starbeck, and is home to a number of industrial units, 12 of them owned by Hornbeam Park Developments.
The company has submitted a retrospective application for the waiting restrictions, and North Yorkshire Council’s assistant director for highways and infrastructure has recommended that it be granted and that the parking and waiting restrictions be officially introduced accordingly.
North Yorkshire Council is due to make a final decision on the matter by tomorrow (November 1).
A spokesperson for Hornbeam Park Devlopments told the Stray Ferret:
I presume this matter will be decided in accordance with the highways and infrastructure recommendations, in which case, we [will be] pleased that common sense has prevailed.
Hornbeam Park Developments also made a number of alterations to footpaths to create new vehicle accesses to various units on Hookstone Park, but was instructed to remove tactile paving that it had installed in accordance with an earlier iteration of its plans.
Tactile paving is a system of textured surfaces designed to help visually impaired people get about safely.
Hornbeam Park Developments also owns and runs Hornbeam Park itself, as well as several properties in Harrogate town centre.
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