North Yorkshire Council has approved plans to convert a former guest house in Harrogate into seven flats.
Leeds-based Abbeycrown Ltd tabled proposals to the council to change the property at 6 Dragon Parade, which is known as Dragon House, into co-living accommodation.
In documents submitted the council, the developer said the guest house had seen a downturn in trade during the covid pandemic.
It added that, as a result, the property was “unviable as a guest house”.
The proposal would see the building converted into a seven-bedroom house of multiple occupation.
The developer said in its planning statement:
“The applicant is looking to address the need of high quality co-living facilities in the area to create rooms for professionals and public sector workers.”
It added that tenants would be “fully vetted and verified people” and would not have a detrimental impact on the surrounding area and neighbours.
A house in multiple occupation is a property rented out by at least three people who are not from the same household, but share facilities such as a kitchen and bathroom.
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Plan to convert former Harrogate guest house into co-living accomodation
A former guest house in Harrogate could be converted into a house in multiple occupation.
Leeds-based Abbeycrown Ltd has tabled proposals to North Yorkshire Council to change the property at 6 Dragon Parade, which is known as Dragon House, into co-living accommodation.
In documents submitted the council, the developer said the guest house had seen a downturn in trade during the covid pandemic.
It added that, as a result, the property was “unviable as a guest house”.
The proposal would see the building converted into an eight-bedroom house of multiple occupation.
The developer said in its planning statement:
“The applicant is looking to address the need of high quality co-living facilities in the area to create rooms for professionals and public sector workers.”
It added that tenants would be “fully vetted and verified people” and would not have a detrimental impact on the surrounding area and neighbours.
A house in multiple occupation is a property rented out by at least three people who are not from the same household, but share facilities such as a kitchen and bathroom.
North Yorkshire Council will make a decision on the proposal at a later date.
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20 cars on Harrogate street scratched with key
About 20 cars parked on a street in Harrogate have been scratched by what appears to have been a key.
Marketing professional Charley Christopher noticed the paintwork damaged on vehicles on Dragon Parade when she was walking to Harrogate train station yesterday morning.
She said:
“It looks like someone keyed a huge number of cars.
“It was as if someone just walked along the whole street with something sharp.”
Ms Christopher, who lives nearby, suggested people check dash cam and CCTV footage to see if they could identify the culprit or culprits.
She noticed the incident at about 8.30am on Saturday. The Stray Ferret walked along the road at about midday on the same day and noticed several cars were marked.
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Permanent covid testing site to open in Harrogate next week
Harrogate’s full-time coronavirus testing site is due to open next week.
The Department of Health and Social Care site will be located in the Dragon Road car park, which has been home to the mobile testing centre over the past few months.
The mobile testing centre has generally been open for four hours a day, two days a week.
The new full-time centre is due to begin operating on Wednesday next week. After an initial pilot period, it will be open between 8am and 8pm, seven days a week.
People will be able to turn up on foot, unlike at the mobile testing centres. However, tests must still be booked in advance,
While the permanent site is being built, the mobile testing facility will move to Harrogate Hydro on Friday this week and then Harrogate High School on Sunday.
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North Yorkshire Local Resilience Forum, a partnership organisation that includes councils, emergency services and health bodies that tackle the pandemic, successfully made the case for permanent centres in Harrogate and Scarborough to the DHSC.
Dr Lincoln Sargeant, the director of public health in North Yorkshire, said:
“We have worked hard to retain and increase the level of testing across the county, so we are pleased that our efforts have resulted in the creation of these two sites, which will be up and running shortly.
“We will continue to lobby for further expansion of testing facilities across the county.”
The Stray Ferret asked the DHSC the cost of building the permanent testing centre in Harrogate but had not received a response by the time of publication.
The Harrogate district recorded a further 24 positive coronavirus cases today, according to the latest Public Health England figures.
It takes the total number of cases in the district since the start of the pandemic to 1,436.