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May 2022
Last Updated: 29/04/2022
Plans to increase outdoor dining space at West Park Hotel in Harrogate
An extra six tables and 19 chairs could be placed outside two neighbouring shops if plans are approved. Meanwhile, the founding director of an accountancy firm has stepped down.
Plans to increase outdoor dining space at West Park Hotel
Outdoor dining areas could be created in front of shops along West Park if plans by West Park Hotel are approved.
The owners of the hotel and restaurant have applied to place six tables and 19 chairs in front of 17a and 18 West Park, where Moda in Pelle and Georgie's trade.
The furniture would only be used outside the shops' opening hours, no later than 10pm, and would be in addition to the furniture already outside West Park Hotel itself.
As part of the application, the owners said:
"The outside dining does create a pleasant ambience and enhance the attractiveness of the street, thereby making a positive contribution to the vitality and vibrancy of the area...
"The portable barriers will prevent encroachment into this pedestrian space.
"The facilities for pedestrians are maintained. Additional outside dining serviced by the West Park Hotel will help meet the increased demand from customers concerned about, or with vulnerability to, Covid 19. Allowing access for all to outside dining in an attractive and serviced location."
Full details of the proposal can be found via Harrogate Borough Council's planning website, using reference 22/01593/FUL.
Director leaves accountancy firm to pursue financial coaching role
The founder of a Harrogate accountancy firm is stepping down in order to take on a new challenge.
Teresa Hitchens, pictured left, who founded CCF Accountancy in 2010, will be turning her hand to financial coaching, after building up her own company for more than a decade.
She said:
"This is all about helping people get their business and personal finances in order and using this as the base to help them get to the position they want to be in their business, either working smarter, working less, or exiting and doing something completely different."
CCF Accountancy will continue trading under the direction of co-owner and operations director Kelly Chadwick, pictured right, and Andy Lock.
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