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St Margarets Lodge College Road Ripon North Yorkshire HG4 2HD

HGT22/04795/TCONTree works in Conservation AreasApproved

Approved on 10 January 2023

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

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

Proposal

Felling and removal of Cypress Tree (T1); Crown lift of Magnolia Tree (T2); Reduce 3no. leading branches to south from 6m to 3m of Cypress Tree (T3); Felling and removal of Elm Tree (T4); Pruning and trimming of group of Laurel stems (T5); Coppice Irish Yew Tree (T6); Crown lift Cypress Trees (T7 and T8) to 3m; Removal of 2no. branches and and crown lift to 3m of Cypress Tree (T9); Felling and removal of Sycamore stems (T10); Crown reduction from 4.5m to 3.5m and trimming to ornamental shape of Yew Tree (T11); Crown lift to 5.5m of Oak Tree (T12) within Ripon Conservation Area.

Received
15 December 2022
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
1
Council
Harrogate
Ward
Ripon Ure Bank
  1. Received15 Dec
  2. Validated15 Dec
  3. Consult.12 Jan
  4. Target26 Jan
  5. Decided10 Jan

Decided in 26 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a tree application at St Margarets Lodge College Road Ripon North Yorkshire HG4 2HD. Harrogate has handled 2,683 applications of this type. This one was decided in 26 days, 3 weeks quicker than Harrogate's typical decision time. The site is in the Ripon conservation area, with 2 listed buildings 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 2HD
Application type
Tree works in Conservation Areas
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Ripon

Planning application dates

Date validated
15 December 2022
Consultation expiry
12 January 2023
Consultation start
19 December 2022
Consultation end
12 January 2023
Last date for comments
12 January 2023
Target decision date
26 January 2023

Applicant and agent

Agent
Treeplan
Agent address
Ross Cannon 8 Parkway Steeton Keighley BD20 6SX

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.

  • Conservation area: Ripon
  • 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

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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