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Jul 2023
New plan to create eight flats above Cambridge Street shops in Harrogate
A fresh plan has been tabled to create eight flats above shops on Cambridge Street in Harrogate.
York-based GHT Developments has submitted the proposal to North Yorkshire Council for the upper floors of 6-14 Cambridge Street.
The ground floor of the properties is currently occupied by the Card Factory, Phone Patch and an empty unit which was formerly the Phone Doctor. For many years the site was home to Carphone Warehouse.
The site
previously had approval for three one-bedroom and two-bedroom apartments.
However, the developer has lodged fresh plans for eight flats because, it says in planning documents, the scheme had “evolved” after it had “been established that the roof is in need of replacement”.
It added that the increased build costs of the previous scheme had left it “unviable”.
In documents submitted to the council, GHT Developments said:
As part of the new scheme, four sets of flats would be created on the first and second floors.
North Yorkshire Council will make a decision on the plan at a later date.
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- Plans to build nine flats on site of former Harrogate council building
The move comes as work is ongoing at the former River Island unit on Cambridge Street to convert the building into apartments.
The store closed on February 4 after the landlord announced plans to change use of the building.
Plans were approved in summer 2020 to refurbish the ground floor of the building and convert the first floor, as well as adding a roof extension, to create 14 apartments
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