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Mar 2023
Harrogate’s planning committee approves sole council house in final act
Harrogate Borough Council’s planning committee last act yesterday was to approve a new council house in Huby.
The committee of councillors has met about once a month to decide on some of the largest and most controversial developments in the district.
But in its final meeting it was asked to approve a two-bedroom council home on the Kingsway estate in Huby.
When the council was formed in 1974 it owned 7,000 council houses across the Harrogate district but this has fallen to 3,800 since the Conservative government introduced the Right to Buy scheme in the 1980s.
There are currently 2,199 households registered on the waiting list for council homes.
The two-storey home in Huby will include solar panels and an air source heat pump to provide future residents with renewable energy.
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Harrogate Borough Council housing officer Emily Shephard told councillors the authority still owns 80% of council homes on the Huby estate, which is next to Weeton train station.
Objector Susan Durrant told councillors the site would increase traffic in Huby and the empty grassland should be used by the community instead.
She said:
The plans were approved by eight votes to four.
North Yorkshire Council will create new planning committees based on parliamentary constituency areas.
This means that from April 1, the Harrogate Borough Council area will be split into new committees for Harrogate and Knaresborough, Selby and Ainsty and Ripon and Skipton.
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