Following renewed interest in this matter and lobbying of Council representative by Richard Sadler, this matter will now be decided by the planning committee and not by planning officers under delegated powers.
This means it is being taken more seriously. Well done!
Currently the decision on the development application is to be made on 25th October or it may be delayed until 3 November.
We have received complaints about the graffiti on the back windows of the Henry Jenkins. We are contacting the owner – David Fielder – regarding the graffiti and asking him to have it covered over or removed. You can also contact him directly to ask for him to have it removed. Fielder…
The Harrogate Borough Council have chosen to refuse an Asset of Community Value (ACV) listing for a fourth time. The Henry Jenkins was originally listed as an ACV in 2017 but the council decided to delist the eastern half of the building when the owner sold this part to a business associate.The eastern part of…
Wednesday 4th December. A meeting was held in Harrogate with Mark Codman, Legal & Governance Officer and Rachel Bowles, Corporate Affairs Director of HBC. The frank and detailed discussion centred on why HBC had refused the re-establishment of the ACV on the ‘eastern-annexe’ of the Henry Jenkins Inn. They gave us several reasons. a) They…
On a more sombre note, the Planning Inspector decided to ‘allow’ Justin Claybourne’s appeal against the refusal of his planning application on the ‘eastern- annexe’ of the Henry Jenkins. This means that he has now been given permission to develop that part of the site for residential use. This is an unexpected turn of events,…
3rd Nov 2023 – New Final Submission Date for Objections Confirmed After some confusion as to the final submission dates, HBC (now NYC) have confirmed that it is now set as 3rd November 2023. HJCP sent a number of questions to the Council about the delay in posting up the Green Notices by the building;…
Plans for the demolition of the Henry Jenkins were were decisively rejected today by Harrogate Borough Council’s Planning Committee. Councillors voted 12-0 to turn down an application by David Fielder, of Fielder Holdings, to knock down the pub and redevelop the site with housing. There were three abstentions. Richard Sadler, from the Save the…
