We have been asked by the residents of Ferrensby to highlight this planning application as it is unlikely anyone will see the green notices erected by HBC.The site is the large wooded area surrounding the lake as you walk along part of the Knaresborough Round footpath linking Wath Lane (Stuart Bartons farm field track) towards Ferrensby and returning along Arkendale Road. A route very popular with residents and visitors, probably due to it being in open countryside with a vast array of wildlife to spot and currently without any roads or human intervention other than farming.
“Some 5 years ago, Ferrensby Parish Meeting voted to oppose Mr & Mrs CR Jackson’s application to build a large modern house at the site named above near the village. This vote followed a presentation by one of the applicants’ architects to the meeting. Subsequently a small team of villagers volunteered to lead the opposition. This included many meetings with local interests, councillors, countryside organisations and even included taking professional legal planning advice. Happily all the effort paid off and the application was comprehensively rejected by Harrogate Borough Council over a year ago.
The new application that has been lodged doesn’t alter anything at all from the original. The design remains exactly the same but the applicants’ experts go to very great lengths to try to overturn HBC’s reasons for the previous rejection.
Ferrensby Parish Meeting intends to object again to this application. As time is short for our responses, they are needed before 4th July, we ask that you help by objecting again as soon as possible.. Either send a letter to the planning department, email planningconsultation@harrogate.gov.uk or via the HBC planning site.
Thanking you for your support in hopefully objecting to these plans.
regards Kathy Parish Clerk”
