A meeting to determine the future of Newby Wiske Hall has been deferred.
Members of Hambleton District Council’s planning committee were due to meet tomorrow to deal with the applications for planning permission and listed building consent at the former North Yorkshire police headquarters.
PGL is seeking consent to allow the site to be used as a children’s residential centre.
Earlier this week, campaigners battling the plans accused the council of “incompetence”.
Members of Newby Wiske Action Group (NWAG), who claim North Yorkshire Police commissioner Julia Mulligan’s decision to sell the grade II listed property to activity holiday firm PGL will ruin the village, said despite an undertaking by council officers to publish their 85-page report on the authority’s planning portal site, with less than 48 hours until planners met it had not been uploaded.
“We have listened to what local people have told us about not having had sufficient time to consider the documents and feel that the best way forward to ensure that the planning committee is able to make a sound decision is to delay this meeting,” said deputy chief executive, Mick Jewitt.
The special planning committee meeting is now being held at Solberge Hall at 10am on Wednesday, May 29.
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