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Bell Bank House Sleights Lane High Birstwith HG3 2LE

HGT17/05535/CLEUDLawful Development Certificate-existingApproved
Lawful development certificate

Approved on 9 February 2018

Council decision: Lawful Development Certificate permittedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Certificate of Lawfulness for existing use of paddock land to be used as a private garden for dwelling.

Received
19 December 2017
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
2
Council
Harrogate
Ward
Lower Nidderdale
Agent
Design Emporium
  1. Received19 Dec
  2. Validated19 Dec
  3. Consult.23 Jan
  4. Target13 Feb
  5. Decided9 Feb

Decided in 52 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Bell Bank House Sleights Lane High Birstwith HG3 2LE. Harrogate has handled 593 applications of this type. This one was decided in 52 days, 3 days longer than Harrogate's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 3,250 applications in total for the HG3 postcode area.

91% of amendment 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
HG3 2LE
Application type
Lawful Development Certificate-existing
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Birstwith

Planning application dates

Date validated
19 December 2017
Consultation expiry
2 February 2018
Consultation start
2 January 2018
Consultation end
23 January 2018
Target decision date
13 February 2018
Committee meeting
13 March 2018

Applicant and agent

Agent
Design Emporium
Agent address
John Forster The Barn Home Farm Apperley Bridge Bradford BD17 7RH

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
12 January 2018
Site notice end
2 February 2018

Additional information

Documents
7

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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.

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.

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

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Planning history at this site

1 other application at this property, newest first.

  1. 2020
    8 Dec

    Erection of detached garage.

    ApprovedFull permissionHGT20/04963/FUL

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