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PLANS for 61 retirement flats in Knaresborough have been approved at the fourth time of asking by developers which refused to further reduce the…

Concerns are growing over the future of fire services in Harrogate as the area’s commissioner prepares to face the public over plans to cut the number of night-time fire engines to just one.

CONSERVATIVE councillor Victoria Oldham has been nominated as the final ever mayor on Harrogate Borough Council.

Updated Thursday, 13th May 2021, 3:08 pm New Starbucks drive-thru? The old dentist building in Harrogate whose future has sparked so much controversy. (Picture Gerard Binks) After previously rejecting controversial plans for a Starbucks drive-thru on Wetherby Road three times, the decision this week by councillors not to continue the fight at a forthcoming appeal has raised questions over how planning now operates. The U-turn follows recent planning setbacks for Harrogate council at the appeal stage, which included defeat over £40m plans for a new motorway service station near Boroughbridge...

AN inquiry has been launched after emails revealed a Harrogate council officer “massaged” a key report on now-approved plans for a controversial motorway service station on the A1(M) near Kirby Hill. Emails seen by the Local Democracy Reporting Service show that Barrie Gannon, former principal landscape architect, made changes to a landscape report in 2019 when the council’s planning department went against three previous refusals to recommend approval. Mr Gannon said he hoped the changes would make the report “read better” – although it is not yet known what was amended....