AN inquiry has been launched after emails revealed a Harrogate council officer “massaged” a key report on now-approved plans for a controversial motorway service station on the A1(M) near Kirby Hill. Emails seen by the Local Democracy Reporting Service show that Barrie Gannon, former principal landscape architect, made changes to a landscape report in 2019 when the council’s planning department went against three previous refusals to recommend approval. Mr Gannon said he hoped the changes would make the report “read better” – although it is not yet known what was amended. The report said the landscape impact of the service station was “not substantive” in what campaigners have described as a “complete U-turn” from a previous council assessment which warned it would cause “significant harm”.