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Ripon Spa Baths Park Street Ripon North Yorkshire HG4 2BD

HGTZC23/03404/LBListed Building consentApproved

Approved on 5 September 2024

Council decision: Application PermittedPlanning committee

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Listed Building Consent application for conversion of Ripon Spa Baths and Boiler Tower to form two commercial units and offices, including demolition of Swimming Pool Building and replacement with single storey extension to Spa Building, and internal and external alterations to existing buildings. Erection of new building to accommodate four residential apartments. Alterations to landscaping to link new courtyard to Spa Gardens.

Received
14 September 2023
Decision level
Planning committee
Public comments
10
Council
Harrogate
Ward
Ripon Ure Bank & Spa
Agent
architecture:ab ltd
  1. Received14 Sep
  2. Validated21 Sep
  3. Consult.26 Aug
  4. Target6 Sep
  5. Decided5 Sep

Decided in 350 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a heritage application for demolition at Ripon Spa Baths Park Street Ripon North Yorkshire HG4 2BD. Harrogate has handled 764 applications of this type. This one was decided in 357 days, 44 weeks longer than Harrogate's typical decision time. The site is in the Ripon conservation area, with 13 listed buildings nearby. There have been 4 other applications at this address. We hold 2,235 applications in total for the HG4 postcode area.

78% of heritage 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 2BD
Application type
Listed Building consent
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Ripon

Planning application dates

Date validated
21 September 2023
Consultation expiry
26 August 2024
Consultation start
21 August 2024
Consultation end
26 August 2024
Neighbour consultation start
5 September 2024
Last date for comments
26 August 2024
Target decision date
6 September 2024
Committee meeting
2 September 2024
Permission expires
5 September 2027

Applicant and agent

Agent
architecture:ab ltd
Architect profile
ARCHITECTURE:AB LTD
Agent address
Mr Andrew Burningham High Trees Steven Way Ripon HG4 2TJ United Kingdom

Planning decision

Statutory period
351 days

Publicity

Last advertised
20 June 2024
Advertisement expiry
14 July 2024
Site notice start
18 June 2024
Site notice end
12 July 2024

Additional information

Documents
75

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Ripon
  • Listed building: Grade II: Spa BathsOn this site · +3 more
  • 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, 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.

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© 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.

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