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Oct 2023
Harrogate road to be closed for another six months
A busy Harrogate road is to remain closed for another six months.
Vehicles have been blocked from crossing the bridge where Kingsley Road meets Bogs Lane since November last year.
Besides serving the Kingsley area, the road is also used as a cut-through to avoid congestion on the main A59 Knaresborough Road.
The road was due to re-open to through traffic on November 3 but North Yorkshire Council, the highways authority, has now said the traffic order will remain in place until May.
The order was issued to enable work on the 133-home Redrow homes site Kingsley Manor to take place.
But in an email seen by the Stray Ferret, the council said Barratt Homes —which built the nearby Kingsley Meadows development — had not fulfilled an obligation to build a footway along Bogs Lane to make the area safer for pedestrians.
The email said:
The email adds the council had therefore extended the temporary road closure "to ensure the road does not open until a footway is constructed allowing safe pedestrian access".
By May, the road closure will have lasted for 18 months — the maximum legal time.
There appears no guarantee, however, the footway will be finished by then.
A spokesperson for Barratt and David Wilson Homes Yorkshire East, said:
A local resident, who asked not to be named, said the situation typified the ‘act now, think later’ approach to development in the area over the last six years.
They said:
A familiar site on Kingsley Road.
Cllr Chris Aldred, a Liberal Democrat who represents High Harrogate and Kingsley, said:
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