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21
Jul
Appeal hearing to be held over homes on Harrogate’s Kingsley Farm
An appeal hearing is set to be held into a plan for 25 homes in the Kingsley area of Harrogate.
Quarters Kingsley Ltd received outline planning permission to build up to 30 homes on the site of the former chicken farm at Kingsley Farm in January 2023.
The company, based in Felliscliffe, then submitted a reserved matters planning application for 25 homes to North Yorkshire Council.
However, the council rejected the plan in November 2024 on the grounds that it had not provided “sufficient information" on access and that the layout, scale and design were not considered to “reflect the principles of good design”.
In June, Quarters Kingsley appealed the decision to the government’s Planning Inspectorate, which deals with planning disputes.
A statement of case, produced by property consultants Carter Jonas on behalf of the developer, said the scheme “meets the requirements of a sustainable development”.
It added that the Harrogate District Local Plan was no longer up to date and the council had new housing targets to reach under the government's housebuilding agenda.
A computer generated image of the Kingsley Farm site.
Now, a hearing over the appeal is set to be held in Harrogate on October 22 this year.
According to appeal documents, the hearing will be overseen by a government planning inspector and is scheduled to sit for one day.
A venue for the hearing is yet to be confirmed.
Kingsley development
The site is one of the last remaining undeveloped areas in the Kingsley area, where residents have long raised concerns over the amount of housebuilding.
Some 600 new homes have been approved in recent years, including a 162-home scheme on Kingsley Drive which was fiercely contested by residents.
People have raised concerns about congestion and traffic flow, as well as additional pressures on local schools and healthcare services.
The scale of housebuilding has also led to residents to call for a halt to any new developments.
The Stray Ferret has reported on the scale of new housing developments across the Harrogate district extensively.
We have looked at what Labour’s ambitious housing targets could mean for our local area, and whether North Yorkshire is ready for what will be a mammoth increase to its housing target.
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