North Yorkshire Council has reopened submissions for sites that could form part of the authority’s new planning blueprint.

The council is currently compiling its local plan, which will set out how much land should be provided – and where it should be – to accommodate new homes, jobs and associated infrastructure.

Called the North Yorkshire Local Plan, it will supersede plans created by now defunct authorities, such as Harrogate Borough Council, which was abolished in April 2023.

The move comes as the Labour government increased North Yorkshire’s housing targets to 4,156 a year — it had previously been 1,361 — which has increased pressure on the council to identify land for new homes.

Now, council officials are again calling for sites to be put forward to be considered for the local plan from landowners, developers and site promoters.

The six-week submission period opened at 9am yesterday (May 11) and will close at 11.59pm on June 22.

The council said it will consider reopening the call for sites once new locations have been submitted, but stressed this cannot be guaranteed and encouraged any further sites to be submitted now. 

According to the local development scheme for the North Yorkshire Local Plan, which the council describes as “timetable for the production of documents that will make up” the new local plan, the blueprint will be examined between 2028 and 2029, before being adopted in 2029.

The council previously said it expected to adopt the new local plan by late 2028. 

The Stray Ferret previously reported on sites submitted as part of a previous call for sites. 

You can read about some of submissions in different areas of the Harrogate district by clicking here, here and here.