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Holly Garth Swalewood Lane High Birstwith Harrogate North Yorkshire HG3 2JN

HGT21/05179/FULFull permissionApproved
Full

Approved on 6 December 2022

Council decision: Application PermittedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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This information is subject to Crown copyright and database rights 2026 and is reproduced with the permission of HM Land Registry. The polygons (including the associated geometry, namely x, y co-ordinates) are subject to Crown copyright and database rights 2026 Ordnance Survey AC0000851063. Conditions of use.

Proposal

Change of use of outbuilding to form single storey one bedroom dwelling to include; replacing rendered blockwork with stone, the installation of a fence and alterations and additional fenestration.

Received
30 November 2021
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
5
Council
Harrogate
Ward
Nidd Valley
Agent
Arrowsmith Associates
  1. Received30 Nov
  2. Validated1 Aug
  3. Consult.5 Sep
  4. Target8 Dec
  5. Decided6 Dec

Decided in 127 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application for an outbuilding at Holly Garth Swalewood Lane High Birstwith Harrogate North Yorkshire HG3 2JN. Harrogate has handled 5,591 applications of this type. This one was decided in 371 days, 46 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 2JN
Application type
Full permission
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Birstwith

Planning application dates

Date validated
1 August 2022
Consultation expiry
5 September 2022
Consultation start
12 August 2022
Consultation end
5 September 2022
Last date for comments
5 September 2022
Target decision date
8 December 2022
Committee meeting
5 January 2023
Permission expires
6 December 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent
Arrowsmith Associates
Agent address
Richard Clark Conyngham Hall Knaresborough HG5 9AY United Kingdom

Planning decision

Statutory period
129 days

Publicity

Site notice start
12 August 2022
Site notice end
5 September 2022

Additional information

Documents
31

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

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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