Skipton & The Dales
Road is closed for next two years
An important road will remain closed until 2010.
Brewery Lane, Skipton, which was closed temporarily 17 months ago to allow the £40 million redevelopment of Belle Vue Mills, will remain shut until work is finished.
This would be around April, 2010. Developer Novo Homes has applied to extend the closure by another six months until April, 2009, and extensions are expected to be approved on safety grounds.
When it does reopen, the road, which provides a shortcut from Gargrave Road to Broughton Road, will be one-way from the Gargrave Road direction.
A spokesman for Novo Homes said yesterday that the intention was that Brewery Lane would remain closed until work was completed.
The development of the more than 100-year-old former textile mill - which started in earnest in September -- was expected at the outset to take around two years to complete, with the first phase finished by October this year.
When completed, it will feature 122 apartments and town houses, offices, shops and possibly a gym.
More than half of the new homes have already been snapped up by buyers who have paid an average price of just under £155,000.
1:52am Friday 2nd May 2008
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