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21

Dec 2021

Last Updated: 21/12/2021
Environment
Environment

Harrogate's former registry office demolished ahead of rebuild

by Thomas Barrett

| 21 Dec, 2021
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Hornbeam Park Developments has planning permission to build offices on the site of Victoria Park House on Victoria Avenue. The developer will rebuild the facade and some walls as part of the new building, which will include a two-storey extension.

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A Victorian villa in Harrogate that was formerly a registry office and a Citizens Advice Bureau has been demolished.

Hornbeam Park Developments has planning permission to build new grade A offices on the site of Victoria Park House on Victoria Avenue.

The developer will rebuild the facade and some walls as part of the new building, which will include a two-storey extension.

It was previously owned by Harrogate Borough Council, which sold it for £1m in 2016 to help fund its move to new headquarters at Knapping Mount.

A report in 2017 said the building suffered from extensive subsidence, mould and was no longer fit-for-purpose.






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A plan to demolish the villa and replace it with a modern-looking office block, submitted later that year, received an objection from Historic England.

The public body said the building, which was built in 1864, "epitomises the special character and identity" of Harrogate. It said plans to demolish it would "strike at the heart" of what makes the town unique.



Following this, the council said it would no longer support the application and the developer withdrew it.

New proposals, which retained the facade of the existing building, were approved in November 2018 by the council's planning committee.