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Water Tower Back Road High Birstwith North Yorkshire

HGT18/00749/FULFull permissionApproved
Full

Approved on 16 May 2018

Council decision: Application PermittedDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Conversion and extension of redundant water tower.

Received
21 February 2018
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
3
Council
Harrogate
Ward
Nidd Valley
Agent
JE Architectural Ltd
  1. Received21 Feb
  2. Validated27 Feb
  3. Consult.30 Mar
  4. Target17 May
  5. Decided16 May

Decided in 78 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 84 days, 5 weeks longer than Harrogate's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. We hold 3,250 applications in total for the HG3 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
HG3 2JH
Application type
Full permission
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Birstwith

Planning application dates

Date validated
27 February 2018
Consultation expiry
30 March 2018
Consultation start
9 March 2018
Consultation end
30 March 2018
Target decision date
17 May 2018
Permission expires
16 May 2021

Applicant and agent

Agent
JE Architectural Ltd
Architect profile
JE ARCHITECTURAL LIMITED
Agent address
23 Windmill Road Wombwell Barnsley S73 8PW

Planning decision

Statutory period
79 days

Publicity

Site notice start
9 March 2018
Site notice end
30 March 2018

Additional information

Documents
18

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • 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

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.

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