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Mar
RHS reveals designs for new area at Harlow Carr
The Royal Horticultural Society has revealed details of a planned new landscaped area at its garden in Harrogate.
RHS Garden Harlow Carr, which attracted a record 500,000 visitors last year, is one of five gardens run by the gardening charity.
The Stray Ferret revealed in January that the organisation plans to operate two new food and drink venues at the 58-acre site.
It will take over the tea house currently run by Bettys inside the garden and open a new food and beverage kiosk at the other end of the site, near the Queen Mother’s lake.
The kiosk will form part of a proposed new landscaped area, for which the RHS has now submitted formal plans to North Yorkshire Council.
Here are some of the designs that accompany the plans.
The new food and beverage kiosk.
How the landscaped area will look.
The proposed new kiosk, close to the lake.
The planning application seeks to remove existing landscaping, a timber shelter and brick walling and install new landscaping and the kiosk.
The designs show nine new trees would be planted, a hedgerow created and tables and chairs laid out in a visitor seating area.
A new pedestrian link will also be created.
Bettys will continue to operate its tearoom and shop immediately outside the garden, but its tearoom in the garden will be operated by in-house caterers at RHS Garden Harlow Carr.
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