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Aug 2023
Council to approve £400,000 to draw up new housing plan
North Yorkshire Council is set to spend £400,000 on creating a new housing plan for the county.
The Local Plan will guide where land can be used for housing and employment for decades to come.
It will replace the Harrogate district Local Plan 2014-35, which outlines where development can take place across the district between 2014 and 2035.
The old plan was published by Harrogate Borough Council, which was abolished at the end of March.
The new North Yorkshire Council executive next week will recommend approving a sum to help progress work on the first year of the countywide plan.
This will include commissioning “key technical evidence”, such as flood, transport and housing needs assessments.
Gary Fielding, corporate director for strategic resources at North Yorkshire Council, said in a report a full cost for the plan will be published at a later date.
He said:
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The plan will plot where housing and development can take place over the next 30 years, including across the Harrogate district.
Conservative councillors on the authority’s executive agreed to draw up the Local Plan last December.
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