Water Tower Back Road High Birstwith North Yorkshire
Refused on 16 December 2013
Council decision: Application RefusedDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Conversion and extension to water tower to form 1 dwelling (Site Area 0.02ha).
- Received
- 6 August 2012
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Public comments
- 5
- Council
- Harrogate
- Ward
- Lower Nidderdale
- ReceivedReceived6 Aug
- ValidatedValidated21 Oct
- Consult.Consultation5 Sep
- TargetTarget Date16 Dec
- DecidedDecided16 Dec
Decided in 56 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is a full planning application for an extension at Water Tower Back Road High Birstwith North Yorkshire. Harrogate has handled 5,591 applications of this type. This one was decided in 497 days, 64 weeks longer than Harrogate's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address.
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
- Application type
- Full permission
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Birstwith
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 21 October 2013
- Consultation expiry
- 5 September 2013
- Consultation start
- 15 August 2013
- Consultation end
- 5 September 2013
- Target decision date
- 16 December 2013
- Committee meeting
- 14 January 2014
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Not Available. If this appears on the Comments tab please see the Documents tab for Letter of Representation not PA.
- Agent address
- 118 Bachelor Lane Horsforth Leeds LS18 5NF
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Publicity
- Site notice start
- 9 August 2013
- Site notice end
- 30 August 2013
Appeal
- Appeal status
- Appeal decided
- Appeal result
- Dismissed
Additional information
- Documents
- 27
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- National Landscape (AONB): Nidderdale
- 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 (21)
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, 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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1 other application at this property, newest first.
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