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H C Townsend & Son Funeral Directors Oakfield House Tofts Lane Follifoot Harrogate North Yorkshire HG3 1DY

HGT19/01541/TCONTree works in Conservation AreasApproved

Approved on 29 April 2019

Council decision: Tree Work in Conservation Area approvedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Lateral reduction (by 2-3m) of 1no. Oak tree (A). Crown lift (to 3m) and lateral reduction (by 1.5m) of 6no. Conifer trees (B,C,D,E,F,G) within Follifoot Conservation Area.

Received
8 April 2019
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
2
Council
Harrogate
Ward
Spofforth With Lower Wharfedale
  1. Received8 Apr
  2. Validated8 Apr
  3. Consult.6 May
  4. Target20 May
  5. Decided29 Apr

Decided in 21 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a tree application at H C Townsend & Son Funeral Directors Oakfield House Tofts Lane Follifoot Harrogate North Yorkshire HG3 1DY. Harrogate has handled 2,683 applications of this type. This one was decided in 21 days, 4 weeks quicker 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.

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
HG3 1DY
Application type
Tree works in Conservation Areas
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Follifoot

Planning application dates

Date validated
8 April 2019
Consultation expiry
6 May 2019
Consultation start
12 April 2019
Consultation end
6 May 2019
Target decision date
20 May 2019
Permission expires
29 April 2021

Applicant and agent

Agent address
C/o Mr Ian Lythe Mickleton Mire Syke Lane Scotton Knaresborough HG5 9HW

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

Documents
4

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • Green belt: North Yorkshire
  • 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, 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

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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