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Nov
Harrogate forum to 'hand over baton' for town's future development
Representatives of Harrogate Town Council will attend a general meeting of Harrogate Town Plan Forum next month, to take over the preparation of the Neighbourhood Plan.
Harrogate Town Plan Forum is a business and community-based organisation of volunteers, which emerged following the abolition of Harrogate Borough Council and started a town plan process to complement North Yorkshire Council’s emerging Local Plan.
The intention was always to do the groundwork for a Neighbourhood Plan, ready to hand it over once a town council had been elected. That happened in May.
Harrogate Town Council has now formed a Neighbourhood Plan Group made up of town councillors and members of the forum, chaired by mayor Cllr Chris Aldred. It has already started to manage the process which will lead to a new Town Plan.
In an email to forum members, interim secretary Paul Hatherley wrote:
The forum has researched a substantial amount of information about what is good and bad about the town and what should be encouraged or changed by a future town plan.
When Harrogate Town Council was created earlier this year, they became responsible for producing a town plan and it is now time for the forum to ‘hand over the baton’.
Town councillors and forum members will meet at 6.30pm on Monday, December 8 at West Park United Reformed Church in Harrogate to discuss the next stage of the process.
Mr Hatherley said:
If you live or work in the town of Harrogate this is an opportunity to join in and be part of a process which will identify a vision for the town and how it should be shaped in the future.
The forum will continue to support the work of the town council and encourages you to attend the meeting, register an interest, and influence the development of our town.
Event: Town Investment Plan
In a separate development, North Yorkshire Council is developing town investment plans to guide future investment and boost economic growth in 32 towns across the region.
Harrogate’s plan is now underway, and the council will hold a drop-in virtual-reality engagement event at St Peter’s Church in Harrogate, on Friday and Saturday, November 28 and 29, from 9.30am to 3.30pm.
Anyone wanting to contribute to the process – and say how they would like to see the town evolve over the next five to 15 years – can also complete an online survey before Sunday, December 21. Paper copies will be available at Harrogate Library.
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