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8 Castle Yard Castlegate To Castle Knaresborough North Yorkshire HG5 8AS

25/02321/LBListed Building consentApproved

Approved on 31 October 2025

Council decision: Application PermittedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Listed Building Consent for the insertion of a new wood burning stove into the existing central fireplace in the reception hall.

Received
7 July 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
3
Council
Harrogate
Ward
Knaresborough West
Agent
Blue Willow Heritage Limited
  1. Received7 Jul
  2. Validated28 Aug
  3. Consult.26 Sep
  4. Target3 Nov
  5. Decided31 Oct

Decided in 64 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a heritage application at 8 Castle Yard Castlegate To Castle Knaresborough North Yorkshire HG5 8AS. Harrogate has handled 764 applications of this type. This one was decided in 116 days, 10 weeks longer than Harrogate's typical decision time. The site is in the Knaresborough conservation area, with 20 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 18 applications across Knaresborough West. We hold 606 applications in total for the HG5 postcode area.

78% of heritage applications at Harrogate were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 7 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
HG5 8AS
Application type
Listed Building consent
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Knaresborough

Planning application dates

Date validated
28 August 2025
Consultation expiry
5 October 2025
Consultation start
2 September 2025
Consultation end
26 September 2025
Last date for comments
5 October 2025
Target decision date
3 November 2025
Permission expires
31 October 2028

Applicant and agent

Agent
Blue Willow Heritage Limited
Agent address
Miss Sophie Pearson Royal Villas 104 Station Parade Harrogate HG1 1HQ

Planning decision

Statutory period
67 days

Publicity

Last advertised
11 September 2025
Advertisement expiry
5 October 2025
Site notice start
11 September 2025
Site notice end
5 October 2025

Additional information

Documents
10

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions. Ask the council if these matter.

Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.

Also checked, none recorded (19)

flood storage areas, green belt, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, Heritage at Risk entries, nutrient neutrality catchments, national parks, National Landscapes, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves, heritage coasts and brownfield registers.

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Associated applications

  1. 2026
    26 Jan

    Approval of details under condition 3 (Historic Building Recording completed to Historic England Level 2…

    PendingDischarge of conditions26/00408/DISCON
  2. 2025
    7 Jul

    Listed Building Consent for the insertion of a new wood burning stove into the existing central fireplace in…

    This applicationApprovedListed building consent25/02321/LB

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