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May 2022
A Knaresborough man is set to turn the former Natwest building on the high street into a cafe and physio rooms.
Mark Holmes is a sports therapist, working out of clinics in Knaresborough and Harrogate but with planning permission approved he can now move his business into the previously unused building.
The size of the building allows for three treatment rooms, a takeaway hatch and a cafe fit for 50 covers.
Mr Holmes said the main driving force behind the cafe was to give people in Knaresborough a bigger space to go for food, he said in Harrogate there are so many places for people to choose from and he felt this was missing in Knaresborough.
As a well-known town landmark, Mr Holmes has chosen to reflect the building's history and the year it was built and call the cafe 1858.
Hoping to open in July, Mr Holmes said:
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