A cycling group in Harrogate has urged North Yorkshire Council to stand firm after the local authority made the “desperately disappointing” decision to pause progress on an active travel scheme, following a judicial review launched by a commercial developer which claimed that the project would damage businesses in the spa town.
The council later confirmed that it had “quashed” its previous decision, made in May, to proceed with the scheme, citing a desire to “avoid any further exposure to costs and time delays”. “The key consideration is that the latest challenge means that the deadline to spend the cash allocated to this area is certain to expire,” Jones said,. “It is time therefore to stop spending public money trying to drag what is effectively a timed-out dead scheme – the good parts regrettably and the bad too – over the line.
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