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Apr 2023
Decision due on plans to revive historic Harrogate building
Ambitious plans to transform one of Harrogate's most historic buildings into a care home and community facility look set to be determined within weeks.
Grove House, a grade two listed building off Skipton Road, was the home of Victorian inventor, philanthropist and mayor Samson Fox.
Harrogate businessman Graeme Lee, chief executive of Springfield Healthcare, bought the disused six-acre site four years ago for more than £3m.
Mr Lee plans to convert Grove House into 23 independent living apartments and build a 70-bed care home and eight houses providing supported living for over-65s on land alongside it.
How the 70-bed facility alongside Grove House will look.
He also wants to host an annual garden party for locals and let schoolchildren from nearby Grove Road Community Primary School participate in activities alongside residents and use the gardens for study and play as part of his vision for a new type of inter-generational and community care facility.
After months of delays in the planning process, Mr Lee said he was expecting a decision in the next month or two. He added:
An artist's impression of how Grove House would look.
It would be Springfield Healthcare's eighth care home in northern England and second in Harrogate.
Mr Lee, whose company employs 1,600 staff, said he hoped work would start in autumn or winter and be completed by September 2025.
He said:
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