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H C Townsend & Son Funeral Directors Oakfield House Tofts Lane Follifoot Harrogate North Yorkshire HG3 1DY

HGT22/04797/TPOProtected Tree Works applicationApproved

Approved on 30 January 2023

Council decision: Application PermittedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

T1 (Oak) - Lateral reduction by up to 2m to the red lines in the attached photos. Maximum pruning cuts of 45mm but more like 25mm in most places. Clear phone wires by 30cm maximum pruning cuts 30mm. 55/2022 G1 (Cypress) - Crown lift to 3.5m to the red line in the attached photo, on Meadowsweet side only, leaving next doors side as it is. Removing 0.4m maximum pruning cuts of 40mm. 55/2022

Received
15 December 2022
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
2
Council
Harrogate
Ward
Spofforth With Lower Wharfedale
  1. Received15 Dec
  2. Validated15 Dec
  3. Consult.12 Jan
  4. Target9 Feb
  5. Decided30 Jan

Decided in 46 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a tree application at H C Townsend & Son Funeral Directors Oakfield House Tofts Lane Follifoot Harrogate North Yorkshire HG3 1DY. Harrogate has handled 2,683 applications of this type. This one was decided in 46 days, 3 days quicker than Harrogate's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application 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 1DY
Application type
Protected Tree Works application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Follifoot

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
9 February 2023
Committee meeting
14 February 2023
Permission expires
30 January 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent
Scotton Tree Care
Agent address
Mr Ian Lythe Mickleton Mire Skye Lane Scotton Knaresborough HG5 9HW

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
10

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: FollifootNext to the site
  • Green belt: North Yorkshire
  • 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 (20)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, 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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