Land Comprising Field At 425040 467388 Sawley North Yorkshire
Approved on 15 September 2022
Council decision: Application PermittedDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
Creation of a pond complex consisting of 2 No. interconnecting ponds including excavation of pond area and associated landscaping to retain the arising spoil on site for natural flood management to protect the Studley Royal Park including the ruins of Fountains Abbey World Heritage Site.
- Received
- 1 August 2022
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Public comments
- 1
- Council
- Harrogate
- Ward
- Fountains & Ripley
- ReceivedReceived1 Aug
- ValidatedValidated1 Aug
- Consult.Consultation4 Sep
- TargetTarget Date26 Sep
- DecidedDecided15 Sep
Decided in 45 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is a full planning application at Land Comprising Field At 425040 467388 Sawley North Yorkshire. Harrogate has handled 5,591 applications of this type. This one was decided in 45 days, 4 days quicker than Harrogate's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 2,235 applications in total for the HG4 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
- HG4 3EE
- Application type
- Full permission
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Sawley
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 1 August 2022
- Consultation expiry
- 4 September 2022
- Consultation start
- 11 August 2022
- Consultation end
- 4 September 2022
- Last date for comments
- 4 September 2022
- Target decision date
- 26 September 2022
- Committee meeting
- 4 October 2022
- Permission expires
- 15 September 2025
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Publicity
- Site notice start
- 4 August 2022
- Site notice end
- 28 August 2022
Additional information
- Documents
- 17
Site constraints
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.
Source: Harrogate
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