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    Aug 2022

    Last Updated: 01/08/2022
    Environment
    Environment

    Oxfordshire company given £200,000 contract to review Harrogate junctions

    by John Plummer

    | 02 Aug, 2022
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    RPS Consulting Services will review junctions as part of plans to build up to 4,000 homes in the west of Harrogate.

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    Some of the sites allocated for housing in the west of Harrogate.

    An Oxfordshire company has been awarded £200,000 to oversee a review of junctions as part of mass house building in the west of Harrogate.

    North Yorkshire County Council has appointed RPS Consulting Services Limited to oversee the work, which is part of the West Harrogate Infrastructure Delivery Strategy.

    The strategy is part of the wider proposals for the area and builds upon the West Harrogate Parameters Plan, which sets out how the area’s infrastructure and services will cope with 4,000 new homes.

    The contract will see RPS Consulting Services review the designs of the junctions within the strategy.

    Karl Battersby, corporate director for business and environmental services at the county council, said:

    “This is a contract to support us in reviewing proposed junction mitigations for the infrastructure delivery plan, which is required to support growth in the west of Harrogate.
    “The work will look at the design and timing of various junction changes, as well as the cost and delivery mechanism.
    “It includes a number of junctions which will be looked at as part of a cumulative transport assessment carried out by the developers.”





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    Residents have criticised the delivery strategy for lacking detail and being “incoherent”.

    Some people said they were disappointed after a meeting last month over some of the proposals in the delivery strategy.

    The document was due for completion in May – but Harrogate Borough Council has now said it expects it to be published before the end of the year.

    The Western Arc Coordination Group, which represents a range of Harrogate campaign and residents groups, said in a statement after the meeting:

    “On the day, we were asked to provide comments on a document that only consisted of a series of diagrams in relation to a number of road junctions without any supporting data. The whole of this work came over as incoherent and lacking any real structure.”


    In response, a borough council spokesperson said the meeting was held to help design the strategy and further consultation will take place with residents groups later in the year.