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Dec 2022
County council agrees creation of 30-year housing plan
North Yorkshire County Council has agreed to create a county-wide local plan that will plot where housing and development can take place over the next 30 years.
Conservative councillors on the authority’s executive met today to approve the creation of the document, which must be finalised within five years of the new North Yorkshire Council forming on April 1.
It will replace the seven local plans that are currently used by the soon-to-be abolished district councils.
This also means the reviews that are under way on the plans for Harrogate Borough Council and Craven District Council will be halted. However, both documents will still guide planning decisions until the new local plan is created.
Harrogate Borough Council’s local plan says around 13,000 homes can be built across the district between 2014 and 2034.
Conservative Mid-Craven councillor Simon Myers, executive member for planning for growth, told the meeting that the local plan will be “hugely important to the economic vitality of the county”.
He said:
Cllr Myers confirmed that the new council will create six new planning committees to oversee decisions across parliamentary constituency areas, such as Harrogate and Knaresborough, and Skipton and Ripon.
Linda Marfitt, acting head of place-shaping and economic growth at the council, said the creation of a new local plan is a “great opportunity to deliver some of the ambitions the new council will have”.
She said:
Maltkiln
While a review into Harrogate council’s local plan will now not take place, work on the Maltkiln development plan document will continue.
Maltkiln is the name of a new settlement proposed by the Oakgate Group around Cattal railway station.
It is set to have between 3,000 and 4,000 homes, as well as two primary schools, shops and a GP surgery.
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The development plan is in the latter stages of development, after being worked on for the last two years. It sets out a 30-year vision and policy framework on how Maltkiln is designed and developed.
However, Arnold Warneken, Green Party councillor for Ouseburn division, described the process of forming it as “rushed” and said residents have unanswered questions over the boundary of the settlement as well as the position of a new relief road.
He said:
In response, Cllr Michael Harrison, Conservative councillor for Killinghall, Hampsthwaite & Saltergate as well as executive member for health and adult said:
He added:
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