Miller acquires Harrogate land
The housebuilder has added another site in the North Yorkshire town to its forthcoming development portfolio, located on land off Skipton Road.
The site has outline permission for up to 135 homes, with a live application pending for 133 houses.
Work is expected to start early 2026, with the first houses put on the market that summer.
The scheme will be delivered in partnership with Home Group, and the consent includes 40% affordable housing and a range of properties from one- to five-bedrooms.
Miller expects the S106 agreement to equate to around £1.5m towards education, health-care, and off-site public space.
Ian Thomson, land director at Miller Homes Yorkshire, said: “Harrogate continues to be one of the most desirable and the happiest places to live in the UK, so we’re delighted to be returning after several years following the success of our previous developments at Harlow One, Quercus Green, and Chene Hall.
“This development will not only deliver much needed new homes, but will also add value for the local community, ensuring existing residents will benefit too.
“In addition, the site includes the former Cow Dyke Farm, which is proposed to be sold for conversion to residential dwellings. We would welcome any interest in that element being directed to Nicholls Tyreman Estate Agency of Harrogate.”
Good idea. If houses were not needed then they wouldn’t be sold! Circular flow of income!
By Anonymous
Houses are often bought as speculative investments because the supply of land and therefore houses built on land cannot be easily grown to match growth in demand: a self-fulfilling prophesy This is where the simple child-minded economic theory of supply and demand fails to work in reality; for the upmpteenth time. Whic is why, if you stick to Marketism, the cost of living, houses, will always be hardly affordable for most folk; unless you inherit a house or two.
By Anonymous
Are you planning to remove the hawthorn hedge. It is environmentally essential for wild life and a barrier between the development of 2 estates.
By Diane fiddes