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Valley Cottage Spitalcroft Knaresborough North Yorkshire HG5 8JB

25/03243/TCONTree works in Conservation AreasApproved

Approved on 4 November 2025

Council decision: Tree Preservation Order madeDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Crown reduction (by 3m) of 1 No. Beech (T1) within Knaresborough Conservation Area.

Received
22 September 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
2
Council
Harrogate
Ward
Knaresborough West
  1. Received22 Sep
  2. Validated22 Sep
  3. Consult.18 Oct
  4. Target3 Nov
  5. Decided4 Nov

Decided in 43 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a tree application at Valley Cottage Spitalcroft Knaresborough North Yorkshire HG5 8JB. Harrogate has handled 2,683 applications of this type. This one was decided in 43 days, 6 days quicker than Harrogate's typical decision time. The site is in the Knaresborough conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded 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.

93% of trees 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 8JB
Application type
Tree works in Conservation Areas
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Knaresborough

Planning application dates

Date validated
22 September 2025
Consultation expiry
18 October 2025
Consultation start
24 September 2025
Consultation end
18 October 2025
Last date for comments
18 October 2025
Target decision date
3 November 2025
Permission expires
4 November 2027

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

Documents
4

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • Flood zone 2: Medium probability (rivers and sea)
  • Conservation area: Knaresborough

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 (21)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, green belt, scheduled monuments, 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.

A guide only, from official open data; it is not a planning search. Flood zones cover rivers and sea, not surface water.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The Historic England GIS Data contained in this material was obtained on 2026-11-03. The most publicly available up to date Historic England GIS Data can be obtained from HistoricEngland.org.uk.

© Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Harrogate

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