A drone photograph has given an indication of how the new Tesco supermarket in Harrogate is shaping up.
Drone photographer Colin Corker captured the image over the New Park area of the town.
It shows work on the access road off Skipton Road is well underway.
The supermarket’s footprint is also visible on land to the back of Electric Avenue, which also connects to Skipton Road.
The former gasworks site at the junction of Skipton Road and Ripon Road is to the east.
To the north is Oak Beck Retail Park, where Aldi has a store.
Tesco received planning permission in February last year to build a store, petrol station and a 209-space car park on the site of the former gas works at the junction of Skipton Road and King’s Road.
You can see more of Mr Corker’s images here.
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Editor’s Pick of the Week: Flying debris at Tesco, tree protests and New Park news
With its roundabouts, belching traffic and building sites, few would claim New Park to be the loveliest suburb of Harrogate.
But it could have been renamed News Park this week due to its constant appearances on the Stray Ferret — not all for good reasons.
On Friday, we revealed how contractors grinding tree stumps at the Tesco site somehow propelled a lump of concrete through the window of a house on Electric Avenue.
Work on the nearby Ripon Road site where the charity Harrogate Skills 4 Living is building supported living flats has also not gone entirely smoothly. The charity said this week it hopes the flats will be up by Christmas after partially-built apartments on the site were recently demolished.
Elsewhere at the ‘crossroads of North Harrogate’, as New Park has been dubbed (by me), plans to build 135 homes off Skipton Road look set to be approved and, in perhaps the only New Park news to be celebrated this week, the local primary school was rated ‘good’ by Ofsted.
Good news was, however, plentiful elsewhere. You could barely move in Harrogate town centre last Saturday night because the Beam Light Festival was so popular. And Knaresborough Tractor Run, that infectious parade of joy, attracted a record 401 tractors and raised £27,500 for Yorkshire Air Ambulance.
Drone photographer Colin Corker joined me at the start and then hotfooted it around the route to capture some amazing footage. Check this out.
Channel 4 captured the somewhat earthier footage of a room of people squabbling when it attended the parish meeting in Ripon called to discuss the cathedral’s plans to build an annexe.
Our man on the ground in Ripon, Tim Flanagan, sent this photo of Channel 4’s chief correspondent Alex Thomson with tree campaigner Jenni Holman alongside the veteran beech tree at risk of being felled.
Knaresborough Town Council was unusually convivial on Monday night, but there was plenty of crackle in the room when Harrogate Spring Water managing director Richard Hall, flanked by helpers, fielded questions for almost 90 minutes on the company’s plans to expand its bottling plant, which would involve felling 450 trees.
A resolution to this saga seems some way off.
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Bus passenger death prompts visibility concerns on “dark” Harrogate road
The death of a man who had just got off a bus near Harrogate this week has prompted calls for better visibility on the unlit stretch of road.
The unnamed man, who was in his 90s, died after being hit by a vehicle on the A61 Ripon Road between New Park roundabout and Killinghall at about 5.50pm on Monday, November 6.
The man had just alighted at the northbound bus stop on the bridge close to the junction with Knox Mill Lane.
Councillor Monika Slater, a Liberal Democrat who represents Bilton Grange and New Park on North Yorkshire Council, contacted council officers after the incident. She said:
“It is a very dark stretch of road with a speed limit of 40mph and no central reservation. I feel that work could be done to improve the visibility for both drivers and pedestrians in that area.
“North Yorkshire Council need to ensure that bus stops are located in safe places and I have asked them to have a look at what they can do to increase the safety of bus passengers using that stop.”
The unlit stretch of road where the collision occurred.
Cllr Slater received a response saying the council’s road safety team was working with North Yorkshire Police “to fully assess the incident and identify the cause”.
The council officer replied:
“This includes an assessment of the road condition, signs, lines and lighting in the area. Once the report is completed it goes to the North Yorkshire Council executive to review and this would include, if appropriate, any recommendations to alter any of the signs, lines, lighting, etc.
“This is not a quick process as the investigation is very detailed, but we will keep you appraised as this is progressed.”
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Road closed after serious crash near Harrogate
A section of Ripon Road near Harrogate has been closed following a serious traffic collision this evening.
An air ambulance and numerous police cars were called to the bridge between New Park roundabout and Killinghall shortly before 6pm.
The incident occurred close to the junction with Knox Mill Lane.
No details have been released but the road is expected to be closed for some time.
The road closure in Killinghall.
Vehicles were forced to turn around and eventually the police closed a section of the A61 from New Park roundabout to the junction with Otley Road in the centre of Killinghall.
We will bring further details when they become available.
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