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Hillcrest Little Studley Road Ripon North Yorkshire HG4 1HD

HGT22/04169/TPOProtected Tree Works applicationApproved

Approved on 21 December 2022

Council decision: Application PermittedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Crown reduction of 1 no. Yew (T4) of Tree Preservation Order No. 16/2003 T4 by 1 metre to maintain size

Received
30 October 2022
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
1
Council
Harrogate
Ward
Ripon Ure Bank
  1. Received30 Oct
  2. Validated30 Oct
  3. Consult.25 Nov
  4. Target25 Dec
  5. Decided21 Dec

Decided in 52 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a tree application at Hillcrest Little Studley Road Ripon North Yorkshire HG4 1HD. Harrogate has handled 2,683 applications of this type. This one was decided in 52 days, 3 days longer than Harrogate's typical decision time. The site is in 1 listed building nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. We hold 2,235 applications in total for the HG4 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
HG4 1HD
Application type
Protected Tree Works application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Ripon

Planning application dates

Date validated
30 October 2022
Consultation expiry
28 November 2022
Consultation start
1 November 2022
Consultation end
25 November 2022
Last date for comments
28 November 2022
Target decision date
25 December 2022
Committee meeting
5 January 2023
Permission expires
21 December 2024

Applicant and agent

Agent
Arbortech
Agent address
Mr Ben Clarke Keepers Cottage Fellbeck Harrogate HG3 5EU United Kingdom

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
4 November 2022
Site notice end
28 November 2022

Additional information

Documents
6

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • 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 (22)

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, 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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© 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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