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Mar 2023
Last Updated: 01/03/2023
Harrogate's Dragon Road car park to shut for two weeks for £140,000 resurfacing
Dragon Road car park in Harrogate.
Dragon Road car park in Harrogate is set to be closed for two weeks as part of resurfacing work.
The car park will shut from Monday, March 13, until Monday, March 27.
Harrogate Borough Council has earmarked the site for resurfacing work at a cost of £140,000.
The authority said the car park needed to be resurfaced as it had become worn.
The site is currently open to drivers on a pay and display basis from Monday to Sunday between 8am and midnight.
However, it is closed on exhibition days at Harrogate Convention Centre.
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The car park had been earmarked as a potential site to create affordable flats or extra care housing.
However, senior borough councillors decided to pause the plans in November in order for the site to continue to support parking at Harrogate Convention Centre.
Cllr Tim Myatt, cabinet member for planning at the council, proposed the authority should ensure that “adequate parking for Harrogate Convention Centre associated vehicles take primacy over site redevelopment”.
He added that the council should “pause consideration of this site until it is clear that the Harrogate Convention Centre redevelopment will be able to accommodate exhibition traffic on site”.
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