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Mar 2022
Last Updated: 14/03/2022
Plan submitted to demolish Bilton garages for social housing
Harrogate Borough Council lodges plans to demolish 10 garages at Woodfield Close, near the iron bridge, to build two new homes. It says that the scheme will provide 'much needed affordable homes'.
The garages site in Bilton earmarked for temporary accommodation.
Harrogate Borough Council has lodged plans to demolish 10 garages in Bilton to build two new houses.
The garages are on Woodfield Close, near the iron bridge in the Harrogate suburb.
As part of the proposal, two one-bedroom homes would be built on the site.
A council report in August said there were 24 garages on the site but only 12 were occupied. Of these, four were used by local residents.
The report proposed demolishing seven garages to allow for the new development but the number has now increased to 10.
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The council owns and rents out garages across the district and has increasingly looked at the pockets of land as a way to build social housing.
In planning documents, the council said the development would help to provide “much needed affordable homes”.
The move comes as the council approved plans to earmark the site for housing back in August 2021.
The authority also plans to build a two-bed property for social rented housing on grassland it maintains on the corner of Poplar Crescent and Poplar Grove
Harrogate Borough Council will make a decision on the Woodfield Close plan at a later date.
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