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Nov 2022
New Pannal business park rejected
Senior Harrogate councillors have rejected plans for a new business park in Pannal as the proposal was “not viable without significant support”.
Harrogate Borough Council's cabinet last night put the brakes on the proposals for a site off the A61 Leeds Road between the railway line and Crimple Beck.
Councillors also paused plans for a redevelopment of Dragon Road car park in Harrogate and agreed to progress with a housing plan for the Harlow Nursery site provided a new nursery is found.
It comes after council-appointed consultants BDP and Colliers undertook a study to come up with options for three brownfield sites under the Harrogate district Local Plan 2014-35.
Cllr Tim Myatt, cabinet member for planning at the council, told a meeting last night he was not comfortable with the standard of the design for the Pannal proposal.
He said:
He also recommended that the employment site be removed from the local plan “at the review stage or during the creation of a new local plan on a North Yorkshire Council geography”.
The proposed layout of the employment site along the A61 near Pannal.
An officer’s report said the site could be used for high-tech manufacturing, research and development, or business headquarters. Buildings would be up to three storeys and 5,000m sq in size.
The total office space allocated for the site was 10,000m sq alongside 31,500m sq of industrial space.
The officer's report acknowledged that any development of the site was likely to take place after Harrogate Borough Council is abolished next spring, when the new North Yorkshire Council comes into effect.
Dragon Road redevelopment paused
Meanwhile, senior councillors also decided to pause plans for development on Dragon Road car park in Harrogate.
The site could be used to create affordable flats or extra care housing.
However, Cllr Myatt proposed that the council should ensure that “adequate parking for Harrogate Convention Centre associated vehicles take primacy over site redevelopment”.
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- 62 homes set to be built at council’s Harlow Nursery
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He added that the council should “pause consideration of this site until it is clear that the Harrogate Convention Centre redevelopment will be able to accommodate exhibition traffic on site”.
The cabinet did, however, approve plans to procure technical drawings and surveys into how infrastructure for the Nidderdale Greenway cycle route, which passes through the car park, could be improved.
Cllr Myatt said:
Harlow Nursery housing
The council approved plans to press ahead with housing for the site at Harlow Nursery provided a replacement nursery is found.
Cllr Myatt recommended that any sale of the site was “contingent on the relocation of the existing council nursery”.
Consultants hired by the council came up with two options for the site this year. The first option was to build a mix of 57 family homes and flats. The second was to build 62 homes and flats with smaller gardens.
The Harlow Nursery site in Harrogate.
A report before councillors recommended the 62-home option and invites expressions of interest for the land before proceeding to tender for a conditional sale.
Cllr Myatt told councillors:
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