Plans for the first phase of redeveloping the former British Sugar refinery and Manor School site would see 1,097 homes and infrastructure built in six phases up to 2037.
Rapleys, agent for the applicant and site owner British Sugar PLC, stated the first phase focusing on infrastructure would be critical to the wider redevelopment of the Boroughbridge Road site.
The latest application follows the approval of initial, outline plans for up to 1,100 homes along with community facilities and public spaces in 2018.
Permission for altered plans which increased the height of buildings on the site, changed drainage arrangements and provided more details about its Main Street access road, was granted in 2024.
The plans were drawn up in the years following the closure of the refinery in 2007 due to the restructuring of British Sugar’s UK operations.
Buildings which formed part of the sugar beet refinery, which opened in 1926, have since been torn down and the site has largely been cleared.
The site also had to be decontaminated after heavy metals, asbestos, ground gas and other chemicals were found there.
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