The documents are arranged under the local plan chapter headings they relate to, for example, Local Green Space reports can be found under Natural Environment.
Information on the Sustainability Appraisal and Habitat Regulations Assessment can be found below.
You can find updates on the new local plan on our North Yorkshire Local Plan page.
Consultation statements and key issues
- 2017 November Draft Local Plan Statement of Consultation and Key Issues (pdf / 8 MB)
- 2016 October Issues and Options consultation statement (pdf / 7 MB)
Growth strategy and housing
- 2018 January Duty to Co-operate paper (pdf / 974 KB)
- 2018 January Housing background paper (pdf / 868 KB)
- 2018 August Gypsy and Traveller background paper (pdf / 4 MB)
- 2018 August Housing background paper (pdf / 874 KB)
- 2018 August Green Belt background paper (pdf / 1 MB)
- 2018 August Settlement Hierarchy background paper (pdf / 801 KB)
- 2018 August Wind background paper (pdf / 4 MB)
- 2018 Housing and Economic Development Needs Assessment (HEDNA) GL Hearn, July 2017 (pdf / 6 MB)
- 2017 November New Settlement background paper (pdf / 2 MB)
- 2017 July New Settlement report (pdf / 5 MB)
- 2017 November Gypsy and Traveller background paper part 1 (pdf / 1 MB) and 2017 November Gypsy and Traveller background paper part 2 (pdf / 2 MB)
- 2017 Gypsy and Traveller Accommodation Assessment (GTAA) Opinions Research, June 2017 (pdf / 2 MB)
- 2017 July Gypsy and Traveller site assessments (pdf / 11 MB)
- 2016 October Settlement hierarchy background paper (pdf / 1 MB)
- 2016 October Housing background paper (pdf / 2 MB)
- 2016 October Green Belt background paper (pdf / 2 MB)
- 2016 January Windfall Allowance paper (pdf / 832 KB)
- Strategic Housing and Economic Land Availability Assessment (SHELAA)
- Harrogate Borough Council Strategic Housing Market Assessment (SHMA): Update Report Justin Gardner and GL Hearn, June 2016 (pdf / 1 MB)
- Harrogate Borough Council Strategic Housing Market Assessment (SHMA): Final Report Justin Gardner and GL Hearn, September 2015 (pdf / 4 MB)
- Harrogate Borough Council Strategic Housing Market Assessment (SHMA): Interim Report Justin Gardner and GL Hearn, February 2015 (pdf / 12 MB)
- Affordable Housing Viability, Brief Review and Appraisal Summaries Dixon Searle LLP, 2014 (pdf / 1023 KB)
- Gypsy and Traveller Housing Needs Survey Opinions Research, 2013 (pdf / 2 MB)
- Affordable Housing Economic Viability Assessment Adams Integra, 2010 (pdf / 12 MB)
- On 28 October 2010 the council ran a landowners workshop to discuss the emerging Rural Exception Sites policy. Rural Exception Sites: A New Approach to Delivery (pdf / 3 MB)
Built and Natural Environment site assessments
- 2017 Built and Natural Environment site assessments (pdf / 3 MB) - new sites
- Site assessment volume 1 - Harrogate (pdf / 3 MB)
- Site assessment volume 2 - Knaresborough (pdf / 2 MB)
- Site assessment volume 3 - Ripon (pdf / 2 MB)
- Site assessment volume 4 - Boroughbridge, Masham and Pateley Bridge (pdf / 2 MB)
- Site assessment volume 5 - Arkendale to Burton Leonard (pdf / 2 MB)
- Site assessment volume 6 - Cattal to Dunkeswick (pdf / 2 MB)
- Site assessment volume 7 - Farnham to Follifoot (pdf / 2 MB)
- Site assessment volume 8 - Glasshouses to Huby (pdf / 1 MB)
- Site assessment volume 9 - Ingerthorpe to Kirkby Malzeard (pdf / 2 MB)
- Site assessment volume 10 - Lingerfield to Minskip (pdf / 2 MB)
- Site assessment volume 11 - Nidd to Rainton (pdf / 2 MB)
- Site assessment volume 12 - Sawley to Summerbridge (pdf / 2 MB)
- Site assessment volume 13 - Tockwith to Wormald Green (pdf / 2 MB)
- Site assessment volume 14 - open countryside, Otley and Wetherby (pdf / 2 MB)
Economy
- 2018 August Retail Background Paper, Peter Brett Associates (pdf / 182 KB)
- 2018 January Economic Background Paper (pdf / 653 KB)
- New Settlement Employment Mix Report, October 2017 (pdf / 213 KB)
- 2017 Housing and Economic Development Needs Assessment (HEDNA) GL Hearn, June 2017 (pdf / 6 MB)
- Employment Land Review Atkins, 2015 (pdf / 9 MB)
- Harrogate Town Centre Strategy and Masterplan
- Retail Study update Peter Brett, 2016 (pdf / 827 KB)
- Retail Study Peter Brett, 2014 (pdf / 3 MB)
- Local Retail Impact Thresholds Advisory Note Peter Brett, 2014 (pdf / 523 KB)
- Harrogate District Visitor Accommodation Study 2015 (pdf / 1 MB)
Transport and Infrastructure
- 2018 January Draft Infrastructure Delivery Plan (pdf / 982 KB)
- 2018 January Option 3 Traffic Modelling Update, Jacobs (pdf / 3 MB)
- 2018 August Transport Background Paper (pdf / 3 MB)
- 2018 August Infrastructure Delivery Plan (pdf / 791 KB)
- A1M Junction 47 Study Stage 1 (pdf / 542 KB)
- A1M Junction 47 Study Stage 2 (pdf / 527 KB)
- A1M Junction 47 Study Stage 3 (pdf / 863 KB)
- A1M Junction 47 Study Stage 3 update (pdf / 852 KB)
- A1M Junction 47 Study Stage 4 (pdf / 365 KB)
- 2016 October Harrogate district transport model (pdf / 11 MB)
- 2015 December Harrogate district transport model (pdf / 10 MB)
- 2016 October Infrastructure capacity study phase 2 (pdf / 1 MB), phase 3 (pdf / 958 KB) and schedule and funding profile (xlsx / 48 KB)
- 2016 October Whole plan viability study (pdf / 8 MB)
- Infrastructure Capacity Study: Baseline Report Fore DTZ, O'Neill Associates, 2015 (pdf / 1 MB)
- Infrastructure Delivery Plan, 2013 (pdf / 719 KB)
- Community Infrastructure Levy
- Green Infrastructure Supplementary Planning document
- Leeds City Region Green Infrastructure Strategy Leeds City Region, 2010 (pdf / 10 MB)
- Strategic Traffic Assessment: Harrogate and Knaresborough - Draft Site Allocations Jacobs, November 2013 (pdf / 4 MB)
- The Leeds, Harrogate, York Railway: a faster, smarter choice WSP, October 2013 (pdf / 6 MB)
- Leeds, Harrogate, York Rail Line Improvements: Outline Business Case WSP, October 2013 (pdf / 4 MB)
- Manse Farm Rail Study Ove Arup, 2013 (pdf / 879 KB)
- Cycling Implementation Plan and accompanying (pdf / 1 MB)
- Cycling Implementation Map 2013 (pdf / 4 MB)
- North Yorkshire Local Transport Plan 2011-2016 North Yorkshire County Council
- Land at Station Parade Harrogate Development Brief 2005 (pdf / 504 KB)
Climate change
- 2018 January Strategic Flood Risk Assessment (SFRA) addendum (pdf / 1 MB)
- 2018 January Flood Risk Sequential Test Update (pdf / 828 KB)
- 2016 October Flood Risk Sequential Test (pdf / 1 MB)
- 2016 October Strategic Flood Risk Assessment (SFRA) (pdf / 2 MB)
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2016 October Strategic Flood Risk Assessment (SFRA) appendices.
SFRA maps from the website are currently unable to display flood risk information. Please use the downloads to identify the map(s) you require and email localplannyc@northyorks.gov.uk to request.
Appendix A overview (pdf / 7 MB)
Index map 1 (pdf / 4 MB)
Index map 2 (pdf / 2 MB)
Index map 3 (pdf / 4 MB)
Index map 4 (pdf / 3 MB)
Appendix B site assessment (pdf / 285 KB)
Appendix C note to file (pdf / 47 KB)
Appendix D supporting drainage information chart (pdf / 96 KB)
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- Harrogate District Planning and Climate Change Study AECOM, 2011 (pdf / 9 MB)
- Draft Renewable and Low Carbon Energy Supplementary Planning document accompanying Sustainability Appraisal and Habitats Regulations Assessment (pdf / 3 MB)
Heritage and placemaking
- Conservation Area Appraisals
- Heritage Management Guidance Supplementary Planning document
- Sports Provision: An Assessment for Harrogate, Knaresborough and Ripon 2013 (pdf / 3 MB)
- Outdoor Sports Strategy: Final Report Neil Allen Associates, 2013 (pdf / 5 MB)
- Outdoor Sports Strategy: Executive Summary Neil Allen Associates, 2013 (pdf / 709 KB)
- Sport, Recreation, Open Space and Village Halls Study: Part 1 - Standards Assessment 2011 (pdf / 5 MB) and Part 2 - Outdoor Sports Facilities in Harrogate. Knaresborough and Ripon 2011 (pdf / 3 MB)
- Built Facilities Strategy: Strategic Leisure, 2019 (pdf / 4 MB)
Natural environment
- 2017 November Local Green Space Assessments Update Report Part 1 (pdf / 7 MB) and 2017 November Local Green Space Assessments Update Report Part 2 (pdf / 8 MB)
- 2016 October Local Green Space Assessment (pdf / 5 MB)
- 2016 October Review of local landscape designations (pdf / 15 MB)
- Landscape Character Assessment 2004
- Review of Local Landscape Designations: Green Wedges, 2011 (pdf / 3 MB)
- Biodiversity Action Plan 2012
Delivery and monitoring
Sustainability appraisal and habitat regulations assessment
Updates
Sustainability appraisal post-adoption statement December 2020
We adopted the Harrogate district local plan on 4 March 2020. Following adoption, a legal challenge was raised against the new settlement policies in the plan. In line with the resulting court order, the whole of the local plan was remitted to us to consider whether or not to accept the Inspector's recommendations in so far as they related to the new settlement policies and whether or not to adopt the local plan with those policies, taking into account the full sustainability appraisal (SA) documentation and consultation responses. We adopted the local plan with the new settlement policies on 9 December 2020.
In accordance with Regulation 16 of the SEA Regulations, this document summarises key aspects of the SA/SEA work.
Sustainability appraisal addendum 3 main modifications July 2019
Following the examination hearing sessions, this addendum undertakes further SA work on the proposed changes, (referred to as main modifications), to the draft Harrogate district local plan. The Errata relates to main modifications MM162a and MM161 only. The addendum and Errata should be read in conjunction with previous SA assessment work carried out throughout the preparation of the local plan.
- Sustainability appraisal addendum 3 main modifications July 2019 (pdf / 1 MB)
- Errata to sustainability appraisal addendum 3: main modifications July 2019 (pdf / 177 KB)
Sustainability appraisal addendum 2 July 2019
This document is an addendum to the sustainability appraisal submission draft August 2018 and reports on additional SA work undertaken following a request from the Inspector appointed to carry out the examination of the Harrogate district local plan. The inspector considered it sensible for the SA to assess broad locations around each of the proposed potential new settlement sites that had been considered by us in preparing the local plan.
Sustainability appraisal submission draft August 2018
This iteration of the sustainability appraisal was submitted to the planning inspector as part of the local plan examination and updates the previous version of the document.
- Sustainability appraisal submission draft August 2018 Part 1 (pdf / 6 MB)
- Sustainability appraisal submission draft August 2018 Part 2 (pdf / 8 MB)
- Sustainability appraisal submission draft August 2018 Part 3 (pdf / 18 MB)
- Sustainability appraisal submission draft August 2018 Part 4 (pdf / 7 MB)
- Sustainability appraisal submission draft August 2018 Part 5 (pdf / 9 MB)
Habitat regulations assessment
The objective of the habitat regulations assessment is to determine whether the local plan is likely to have a significant effect on the achievement of the conservation objectives of the European conservation sites within and around the Harrogate district. These sites are:
- special protection areas (SPAs) for birds classified by the 1979 Wild Birds Directive
- Special Areas of Conservation (SACs) for other habitats and species designated through the 1992 Habitats Directive
- Ramsar sites, which are internationally important wetland areas designated under the Ramsar Convention
The habitat regulations assessment is a process which feeds into the development of the emerging local plan.