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Borrage Hall Borrage Lane Ripon North Yorkshire HG4 2PW

HGT22/04181/TCONTree works in Conservation AreasApproved

Approved on 7 November 2022

Council decision: Tree Work in Conservation Area approvedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

T1- Beech tree - crown lift over footpath up to 2.5m, crown lift over highway up to 5.2m. T2- Ash tree - fell T3- Copper beech, lateral reduction by 1-2m, on the SW canopy over car parking area, on the lower to mid canopy, T4- Yew tree - crown reduction by 1m T5- Yew tree - remove epicormic growth from trunk around ground level up to 1m

Received
31 October 2022
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
1
Council
Harrogate
Ward
Ripon Spa
  1. Received31 Oct
  2. Validated31 Oct
  3. Consult.27 Nov
  4. Target12 Dec
  5. Decided7 Nov

Decided in 7 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a tree application at Borrage Hall Borrage Lane Ripon North Yorkshire HG4 2PW. Harrogate has handled 2,683 applications of this type. This one was decided in 7 days, 6 weeks quicker than Harrogate's typical decision time. The site is in the Ripon conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There are no previous applications recorded 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 2PW
Application type
Tree works in Conservation Areas
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Ripon

Planning application dates

Date validated
31 October 2022
Consultation expiry
27 November 2022
Consultation start
3 November 2022
Consultation end
27 November 2022
Last date for comments
27 November 2022
Target decision date
12 December 2022

Applicant and agent

Agent
T.Howie Tree Specialist
Agent address
Mr Tom Howie 159 Woodfield Road HARROGATE HG1 4JB

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

Documents
4

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

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 (20)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, 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

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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