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16 Appleby Crescent Knaresborough North Yorkshire HG5 9LS

25/03470/TPOProtected Tree Works applicationApproved

Approved on 17 November 2025

Council decision: Application PermittedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Works to trees within Tree Preservation Order 05/2008 G20 Lateral reduction (by 1m) of 1no. Whitebeam with maximum pruning cuts of 25mm to provide clearance of drive and road (T1 on submitted plan) Crown reduction (from 7.5m to 6.5m) of 1no. Whitebeam with maximum pruning cuts of 25mm to provide clearance of drive and road of 1no. Whitebeam (T2 on submitted plan) Crown reduction (from 6m to 5m) of 1no. Crab Apple with maximum pruning cuts of 25mm to provide clearance of drive and road (T3 on submitted plan)

Received
8 October 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
3
Council
Harrogate
Ward
Knaresborough West
  1. Received8 Oct
  2. Validated8 Oct
  3. Consult.3 Nov
  4. Target3 Dec
  5. Decided17 Nov

Decided in 40 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a tree application at 16 Appleby Crescent Knaresborough North Yorkshire HG5 9LS. Harrogate has handled 2,683 applications of this type. This one was decided in 40 days, 9 days quicker than Harrogate's typical decision time. 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 9LS
Application type
Protected Tree Works application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Knaresborough

Planning application dates

Date validated
8 October 2025
Consultation expiry
14 November 2025
Consultation start
10 October 2025
Consultation end
3 November 2025
Last date for comments
14 November 2025
Target decision date
3 December 2025
Permission expires
17 November 2027

Applicant and agent

Agent
Scotton Tree Care
Agent address
Mr Ian Lythe Mickleton Mire Skye Lane Scotton Knaresborough HG5 9HW

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
21 October 2025
Site notice end
14 November 2025

Additional information

Documents
10

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

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 (22)

flood storage areas, conservation 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

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© 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.

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