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    Sept 2023

    Last Updated: 19/09/2023
    Environment
    Environment

    Plan to convert former Harrogate hostel into flats set for approval

    by Calvin Robinson Chief Reporter

    | 19 Sept, 2023
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    A plan to convert a redundant homeless hostel in Harrogate into housing looks set to be approved.

    The former Harrogate Borough Council submitted the proposal to convert Cavendish House on Robert Street into six flats.

    The house was formerly a hostel, which was operated by the borough council between 1983 and November 2021.

    It closed after the council opened its new homeless centre, Fern House in Starbeck.

    In planning documents published before it was abolished at the end of March, the borough council said converting Cavendish House would make a small dent in its social housing waiting list, which now features over 2,100 households.

    It said:

    “The building was utilised previously as temporary accommodation for single homeless households, however it is no longer fit for purpose and does not meet the needs of this client group (Fern House, a new facility for the same client group, has recently been completed at Spa Lane).
    “The building has been empty since November 2021. As such, it has a negative impact on residential amenity and increasingly risks attracting anti-social behaviour.
    “The development proposals will deliver much needed affordable accommodation in a redundant building and a highly sustainable location, complying full with national and local planning policy guidance.”


    The proposal will go before North Yorkshire Council's Harrogate and Knaresborough area constituency planning committee on September 26.

    North Yorkshire Council officers have recommended the plan be approved.



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