An unprecidented number of residents of Harrogate Borough Council have contacted CPRENY concerned about development in the Harrogate District.

CPRENY were contacted last Thursday by concerned residents of Mickley in the Nidderdale AONB.  We have investigated the planning application and commented.  

Most of you  who work to protect and enhance North Yorkshire know this but to see the story in print ...well, that's something different.

CPRE North Yorkshire has recently supported and endorsed the application by local group SOCC (Save OUR Craven Countryside) for a local green space designation for the Hellifield Flashes.

CPRE North Yorkshire have responded to the lastest local plan consultation by the Craven local authority.  

www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2017/07/06/one-three-homes-planning-permission-arent-built/

One out of every three homes are not being built accroding to this report in the Daily Telegraph yesterday (7th July)

Authorities can grant all the permission they like but it means nothing if the promised homes are not developed.

So... why do we have a housing shortage?  You work it out!

We are now monitoring and publishing information on the applications approved where a developer comes back and says they now find it is not viable to produce the promised affordable homes quote and seek to remove or reduce this.  The trend (and it is without a trend) is happening across England.  This country needs affordable homes for our young families - we all agree about this.  We also know that there is enough planning permission approved and brownfield to produced 1.5 million homes but still applications come in for new sites, usually greenfield, with wonderful promises of affordable homes.  Once the principle of planning is established and remember - that principle haunts a site for ever, developers too often come back and claim suddenly is is unviable to deliver on this commitment.

Do you have any examples of a developer delivering on or better over and above their promised affordable quote?  We'd love to hear about them and promote these sites!

http://www.cravenherald.co.uk/news/15393777.Developer_wants_to_halve_number_of_affordable_homes_in_major_Skipton_residential_and_business_Wyvern_Park_scheme/

Frank Paterson & Jill Wilson received the award for Outstanding Contribution to CPRE at the CPRE North Yorkshire AGM held on the 17th of June in Harrogate.

Jill Wilson and Frank Paterson receive awards for an OUTSTANDING Contribution to the work of CPRE NY

Pre-publication draft of local plan outlining development preferences outside the YDNP went out for six weeks consultation on the 19th of June