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Otter Croft 2 Knaresborough Road Bishop Monkton Harrogate North Yorkshire HG3 3QQ

HGT22/03698/TPOProtected Tree Works applicationRefused

Refused on 16 November 2022

Council decision: Application RefusedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Works to TPO 42/2011 T1 birch and 42/2011 T2 birch - Height reduction to TPO 42/2011 T1 birch by 20% and 42/2011 T2 birch by 10% (see image for reference)

Received
26 September 2022
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
1
Council
Harrogate
Ward
Bishop Monkton & Newby
  1. Received26 Sep
  2. Validated30 Sep
  3. Consult.28 Oct
  4. Target25 Nov
  5. Decided16 Nov

Decided in 47 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a tree application at Otter Croft 2 Knaresborough Road Bishop Monkton Harrogate North Yorkshire HG3 3QQ. Harrogate has handled 2,683 applications of this type. This one was decided in 51 days. The site is in the Bishop Monkton conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There have been 3 other applications 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 3QQ
Application type
Protected Tree Works application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Bishop Monkton

Planning application dates

Date validated
30 September 2022
Consultation expiry
31 October 2022
Consultation start
4 October 2022
Consultation end
28 October 2022
Last date for comments
31 October 2022
Target decision date
25 November 2022
Committee meeting
6 December 2022

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Mr Jonathan Chambers 5 Aspin Park Crescent Knaresborough HG5 8EZ

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
7 October 2022
Site notice end
31 October 2022

Additional information

Documents
13

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Bishop Monkton
  • 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, 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, 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

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© 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.

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