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War Memorial Garden High Street Whixley North Yorkshire

HGTZC23/03246/TPOProtected Tree Works applicationApproved

Approved on 1 March 2024

Council decision: Application PermittedDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Lateral reduction by 3m of 1 no. branch over neighbouring property of 1no. Beech tree within G1 of Tree Preservation Area 64/2008.

Received
31 August 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
3
Council
Harrogate
Ward
Ouseburn
  1. Received31 Aug
  2. Validated6 Dec
  3. Consult.30 Dec
  4. Target5 Mar
  5. Decided1 Mar

Decided in 86 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a tree application at War Memorial Garden High Street Whixley North Yorkshire. Harrogate has handled 2,683 applications of this type. This one was decided in 183 days, 19 weeks longer than Harrogate's typical decision time. The site is in the Whixley conservation area, with 4 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 15 applications across Ouseburn.

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

Application type
Protected Tree Works application
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Whixley

Planning application dates

Date validated
6 December 2023
Consultation expiry
30 December 2023
Consultation start
6 December 2023
Consultation end
30 December 2023
Last date for comments
30 December 2023
Target decision date
5 March 2024
Permission expires
1 March 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Mr Downie 14 Parkway Knaresborough North Yorkshire HG5 9DP

Planning decision

Statutory period
90 days

Publicity

Site notice start
6 December 2023
Site notice end
30 December 2023

Additional information

Documents
11

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: Whixley
  • 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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