College Business Park Athelstan Court Kearsley Road Ripon North Yorkshire
Approved on 27 February 2023
Council decision: Application PermittedDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Change of use of vacant office building (Class E(g)) to 16 residential apartments (Class C3) with external alterations including addition of balconies; alterations to hard/soft landscaping and parking arrangements and other associated works.
- Received
- 16 August 2022
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Public comments
- 16
- Council
- Harrogate
- Ward
- Ripon Ure Bank
- Agent
- Johnson Mowat Planning Limited
- ReceivedReceived16 Aug
- ValidatedValidated16 Aug
- Consult.Consultation24 Sep
- TargetTarget Date28 Feb
- DecidedDecided27 Feb
Decided in 195 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is a full planning application for a change of use at College Business Park Athelstan Court Kearsley Road Ripon North Yorkshire. Harrogate has handled 5,591 applications of this type. This one was decided in 195 days, 21 weeks longer 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 2RL
- Application type
- Full application - Major
- Scale / size
- Large
- Number of dwellings
- 16
- Parish
- Ripon City Council
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 16 August 2022
- Consultation expiry
- 2 October 2022
- Consultation start
- 31 August 2022
- Consultation end
- 24 September 2022
- Target decision date
- 28 February 2023
- Permission expires
- 27 February 2026
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Johnson Mowat Planning Limited
- Agent address
- Richard Mowat Coronet House Queen Street Leeds LS1 2TW
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 196 days
Publicity
- Last advertised
- 8 September 2022
- Advertisement expiry
- 2 October 2022
- Site notice start
- 8 September 2022
- Site notice end
- 2 October 2022
Additional information
- Documents
- 33
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Brownfield land register: BR102Register site at or near this address
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
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Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.
Also checked, none recorded (21)
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Planning history at this site
2 other applications at this property, newest first.
Source: Harrogate
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