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Aug 2023
Plans to create new traffic-free greenway submitted
Plans have been submitted to create a 1.6-mile traffic-free cycleway called the Hammerton Greenway.
The greenway would link Green Hammerton and Thorpe Underwood and cost an estimated £84,600,
Green Hammerton Parish Council began work on the scheme after the 2014 Tour de France passed through the area.
A planning application to change the use of land to facilitate a cycleway has now been submitted to North Yorkshire Council.
Planning documents submitted to the council in support of the application said:
Green Hammerton is surrounded by main roads, which limit access to the network of relatively quiet country roads into the vale of York.
The greenway would link with Great Ouseburn, four miles away, which is part of the Way of the Roses cycle route running from Morecambe to Bridlington.
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The parish council asked path construction specialists David Gray and John Grimshaw to prepare a report detailing how best to deliver this project.
Funding is now thought to be in place thanks to contributions from developers that have built housing in the area.
Upgrading paths
Creating the cycleway will mainly involve upgrading existing paths with a more even and levelled surface.
The planning documents add:
Cycling groups Harrogate Wheel Easy and Harrogate District Cycle Action support the scheme.
Gia Margolis, chair of Harrogate Wheel Easy, said in planning documents:
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