However, according to the Local Democracy Reporting Service, opponents of North Yorkshire Council’s plans are to take their case to the Court of Appeal.
Campaign group Get Away has been granted permission for a review of a High Court decision to dismiss its legal challenge against traffic regulation orders (TROs) made for the project.
The group, which was launched by several Harrogate businesses including A&E Baines Limited and Hornbeam Park Developments, claimed the TROs were issued illegally.
Steven Baines, spokesperson for the campaign group, said: “The council has not undertaken a thorough and transparent process with regard to the Harrogate Gateway scheme – far from it.
“The judge got the decision wrong to dismiss our legal challenge and the Court of Appeal’s move to grant us a review of the judge’s ruling, on the basis that our case has real prospects of success, says a lot about what we are fighting for and how the council has conducted itself.”
The council acknowledged the legal challenge but said work would continue, as the previous challenge was dismissed on all five grounds.
