Harrogate Borough Council are currently developing a Local Development Framework or LDF. This framework will set out the strategic approach to development in the area up until the year 2021.
Click on the following link for the latest newsletter DS-P-LDF_Newsletter_Aug11 - August 2011.
The development of the framework has been mandated by the government.
The first stage is now underway. Each house in the village should have received a copy of the newspaper pamphlet ‘Planning the future with us’. It seems however that many households have not had this delivered. There are a few copies in the village shop, or it can be downloaded from the HBC website here. (acrobat/pdf document 1.4mb)
It is expected that the region will need 400 new houses every year up until 2021. Some of those 400 houses will come from individual planning applications as has been the case so far. ie small developments (The Orchards?) and individual new builds. Some will also come from the redevelopment of existing sites. An estimate of the number of properties which might come from these sources between 2004 and 2009 may be found here..
To summarize
Harrogate 209 houses/year
Knaresborough 53 houses/year
Ripon 91 houses/year
Boroughbridge 20 houses/year
Masham 6 houses/year
Pately Bridge 6 houses/year
Group B & C villages 58 houses/year
Other (barn conversions etc) 69 houses/year
which all comes to more than the estimated 400 houses per year needed in the future. However the document quoted goes on to suggest that these number provide a reasonable estimate of the distribution of housing development which might be expected in the early years of the LDF.
One problem of course is that the small developments in villages so far have tended to be using small areas of land within the development line. In Burton Leonard most such small areas have now been built on.
For the purposes of the LDF, the area has been split into the major urban centres, market towns, group B villages and group C villages.
Burton Leonard has been placed as one of eleven group B villages. These villages are those which are thought to be suitable for development by virtue of very good access to jobs, shops and services. Harrogate council will discuss the potential for residential and business development with these villages.
Group C villages (thirty-three of those) have reasonable access to jobs, services and shops. These villages can expect small scale developments of 100% affordable housing.
There are a further seventy-six villages which are not expected to have any extra development.
