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Presbytery To St Marys Church 25 Bond End Knaresborough North Yorkshire HG5 9AW

25/03619/FULFull permissionApproved
Full

Approved on 18 December 2025

Council decision: Application PermittedDelegated (officer decision)8 conditions

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Widen opening to form new entrance to existing apartment, remove existing window, cut back existing stonework, remove existing stone window head and replace with matching stone head for new door opening. New timber stairs together with new separation wall to ground floor, erection of internal wall and door on landing of first floor. Remove existing path around side of building, widen and re-lay stone flag path to new doorway; form retaining wall to existing garden feature area, extending up to form 1100mm high balustrade to adjacent upper door to side of existing chapel corridor entrance; change of occupancy from Presbytery (occupied by priest attached to the church) to a private rented apartment.

Received
17 October 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
7
Council
Harrogate
Ward
Knaresborough West
Agent
Thompson Architecture
  1. Received17 Oct
  2. Validated21 Oct
  3. Consult.14 Nov
  4. Target9 Jan
  5. Decided18 Dec

Decided in 58 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application for window replacement at Presbytery To St Marys Church 25 Bond End Knaresborough North Yorkshire HG5 9AW. Harrogate has handled 5,591 applications of this type. This one was decided in 62 days, 13 days longer than Harrogate's typical decision time. The site is in the Knaresborough conservation area, with 13 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.

90% of full 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 9AW
Application type
Full permission
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Knaresborough

Planning application dates

Date validated
21 October 2025
Consultation expiry
23 November 2025
Consultation start
21 October 2025
Consultation end
14 November 2025
Last date for comments
23 November 2025
Target decision date
9 January 2026
Permission expires
18 December 2028

Applicant and agent

Agent
Thompson Architecture
Agent address
Mr Philip Thompson 32A Yorkersgate Malton YO17 7AB United Kingdom

Planning decision

Statutory period
80 days

Publicity

Last advertised
30 October 2025
Advertisement expiry
23 November 2025
Site notice start
23 October 2025
Site notice end
16 November 2025

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14378468
Documents
20

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 (20)

flood storage areas, 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.

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