Plans have been submitted to open a cafe and sports therapy centre in the former NatWest bank building on Knaresborough High Street.
The NatWest bank closed in May 2017 and many businesses have been rumoured to be moving in over the years. However, plans submitted to Harrogate Borough Council this week indicate it could finally open its doors once again.
The plans are for a change of use from a bank to a ground floor cafe and sports therapy rooms.
According to documents submitted to the council, the proposed cafe would be big enough for 50 customers. The application also includes an ice cream parlour, a hot and cold takeaway and three treatment rooms.
Space for 20 bike storage boxes to the back of the unit are also detailed. The applicant is named as Ms S Holmes.
This building was earmarked to open as a bar under a joint enterprise between Turning Point Brewery in Knaresborough and Major Tom’s Social in Harrogate.
The businesses applied for an alcohol license last October but when asked about plans for the bar Aron McMahon from Turning Point Brewery said there was “no update just yet”.
Plans have been submitted to convert the Coach House at the back of the former Natwest Bank on Knaresborough high street into a two-bedroom home with two car parking spaces.
Knaresborough-based CFK developments is behind the proposal which will see the building put back into full-time use after almost a hundred years.
The main building is called Claro Chambers and has been vacant since the bank moved out in October 2017.
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The Coach House is part of CFK Developments’ wider plans for the site. In 2019, Harrogate Borough Council granted the company planning permission to build three 3-bedroom terraced homes in the car park of the former bank.
Earlier this year, CFK also submitted plans to change the bottom floor of the bank to a cafe, restaurant or office. The plans are yet to be decided.