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Nov 2023
Plans submitted to convert Harrogate's Crescent Gardens to private road
Plans have been submitted to close Crescent Gardens in Harrogate to public traffic.
Harrogate-based property developer Impala Estates bought the former Harrogate Borough Council headquarters alongside the road for £4 million in 2020.
It received planning permission in May last year to turn the building into offices, a roof garden restaurant and gym, and to create a two-storey extension. Work has yet to begin.
The company has now applied for permission to install bollards and planters to convert the public highway into a private road.
If approved, the road would be maintained by Impala Estates for access to the Crescent Gardens development and associated car parking bays.
The area affected would include the Crescent Gardens road and footpath from its intersection with Swan Road to its intersection with Montpellier Road.
According to planning documents submitted to North Yorkshire Council, the application site "excludes the off-carriageway parking bays to the south of the Crescent Gardens roadway with the exception of a small section (essentially two parking bays) located directly between the Crescent Gardens building main entrance and the path opposite into the Crescent Gardens park".
Planters and retractable bollards, similar to those temporarily installed on Beech Grove in Harrogate, would be installed at either end of Crescent Gardens to prevent public vehicles passing.
The documents add:
An impression of how the redeveloped site would look.
James Hartley, director of Impala, told the Stray Ferret,
Asked if the company's plans for the redevelopment of Crescent Gardens had changed, or if a starting date was known, Mr Hartley said:
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