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Aug 2021
Plans to convert former Lower Dunsforth pub into flats
Plans have been submitted to convert a former pub and restaurant in Lower Dunsforth into three flats.
Stonefield Developments has applied to Harrogate Borough Council to convert the building, which was most recently a restaurant called The Hideaway Kitchen. Before that it was a pub called The Dunsforth.
The village is four miles from Boroughbridge.
The restaurant closed last year. Planning documents cite a "lack of customer trade and consequent viability issues" as the reason.
The documents add it was recently re-marketed as a restaurant but received no interest.
The upper floor of the building already has three existing flats, so if approved the building would have six in total.
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- Two Harrogate district village pubs to be turned into housing
- Plan to convert Little Ouseburn pub into housing
Two other nearby village pubs have had applications to convert them into housing over the past year.
In March 2021, Harrogate Borough Council approved plans to turn the former Green Tree pub in Little Ouseburn into housing.
The pub, which is on the main B6265 from Green Hammerton to Boroughbridge, closed in late 2019.
In the same month, the council also approved a plan to turn The Crown Inn pub in Great Ouseburn into a five-bedroom home.
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