Evolve Skell House 8 High Skellgate Ripon North Yorkshire HG4 1BA
Approved on 19 April 2023
Council decision: Application PermittedDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Refurbishment of the existing rear store of the building to convert to new Teaching space. New external steel escape stair from Second floor level, with new escape door.
- Received
- 28 February 2023
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Public comments
- 3
- Council
- Harrogate
- Ward
- Ripon Ure Bank & Spa
- Agent
- Ellis Williams Architects
- ReceivedReceived28 Feb
- ValidatedValidated28 Feb
- Consult.Consultation30 Mar
- TargetTarget Date25 Apr
- DecidedDecided19 Apr
Decided in 50 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is a full planning application at Evolve Skell House 8 High Skellgate Ripon North Yorkshire HG4 1BA. Harrogate has handled 5,591 applications of this type. This one was decided in 50 days. The site is in the Ripon conservation area, with 20 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 2,235 applications in total for the HG4 postcode area.
90% of full 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 1BA
- Application type
- Full permission
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Ripon
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 28 February 2023
- Consultation expiry
- 30 March 2023
- Consultation start
- 6 March 2023
- Consultation end
- 30 March 2023
- Last date for comments
- 30 March 2023
- Target decision date
- 25 April 2023
- Permission expires
- 19 April 2026
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Ellis Williams Architects
- Architect profile
- ELLIS WILLIAMS ARCHITECTS LIMITED
- Agent address
- Mr Tim Brown Wellfield Chester Road Preston Brook Runcorn WA7 3BA United Kingdom
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Additional information
- Documents
- 13
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Conservation area: Ripon
- World Heritage Site buffer zone: Studley Royal Park including the ruins of Fountains AbbeyPart of the site
- 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 (19)
flood storage areas, 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.
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