Readers' Letters: When will the Harrogate housing developments stop?

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The following comments were left under an article about a new multi-million pound roundabout extension at Beckwithshaw, which was approved to cope with more housing in the west of Harrogate.

When will the housing developments stop? Do we need all these houses in just a small area? Roads, traffic, schools etc. Really are they all needed in such a concentrated area?

Tracey Jackson

What about the sewage? Yorkshire water cannot cope with the extra houses. It’s an outdated system.

Maggie Boyd

Crazy. I do find it amazing when trees need to be removed for stupidness like this, they are always diseased.

Nathan Dawson

Ring road? Joined up thinking and forward planning have never been a council strength.

Jackie Stanton

And, next up, a shiny new Pot Bridge flyover to ease the inevitable bottleneck as all this new traffic tries to squeeze across the old bridge.

Chris Grundy

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