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Aug 2022

Last Updated: 17/08/2022
Environment
Environment

Plans to convert Harrogate post office into flats withdrawn

by Calvin Robinson

| 18 Aug, 2022
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Plans to convert the former post office on Cambridge Road into 11 flats have been withdrawn.

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The former post office building on Cambridge Road in Harrogate.

A developer has withdrawn plans to convert Harrogate's former main post office into 11 flats.

The Post Office on Cambridge Road controversially relocated to WH Smith in 2019 amid claims by Harrogate and Knaresborough MP Andrew Jones the service was being “downgraded”. The building has stood empty since.

In November 2020, Harrogate-based developer One Acre Group submitted plans for 25 apartments and offices on the site but withdrew the application last year.

Its plans had been welcomed by conservation group Harrogate Civic Society although it was concerned about a proposal to build an additional floor.

Fresh plans to convert the building into 11 flats were tabled by Leeds-based Priestley Group to Harrogate Borough Council in June this year.

However, the proposal has now been withdrawn.

A planning statement attached to the application said:

“The proposed development will secure the active re-use of this longstanding vacant building with an entirely appropriate mix of uses within a town centre location that will enhance the general appearance of the building with resultant benefits for the wider street scene and conservation area as a whole.”