Countryside campaigners welcome a new plan for greater public access to the great outdoors Reporter Charlie Bullough looks at proposals to improve access for walkers and other outdoor enthusiasts.
Residents have been urged to fight back in what could be their ‘last chance’ to tell the Post Office to drop plans to downgrade Harrogate’s Crown branch.
New data shows that the Harrogate is the hardest place to find a parking space in North Yorkshire and the seventh toughest in the entire Yorkshire and the Humber region.
Residents living near the Stray say their concern is growing as parked cars have been left with smashed windows in the latest in a string of vandalism incidents.
North Yorkshire County is to keep all its options open on tackling Harrogate’s traffic congestion despite the strength of feeling against a possible Nidd Gorge relief road among local councillors and residents at a meeting last week.
Harrogate’s leading body dedicated to defending the Stray has called for a more “robust approach” after one of the worst years for vandalism in the town centre for many years.
Planning bosses at Harrogate Borough Council have tried to settle a dispute over a £10 million offer to ‘save’ Crimple Valley from development as ‘a matter of disagreement’.
A shrinking band of Harrogate volunteers who have worked tirelessly in transforming what was a vandalised dumping-ground into a wonderful Millennium Green say they may be forced to give up the battle.
