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Beechwood Cottage St Winifreds Road Harrogate North Yorkshire HG2 8LN

HGTZC24/03099/TPOProtected Tree Works applicationApproved

Approved on 17 October 2024

Council decision: Application PermittedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

T1 (Beech) - Selective pruning to the red lines shown in the attached photo, by up to 3m, maximum pruning cuts of 60mm to allow some light into this garden and some separation between the trees. T5 (Beech) - Selective pruning to the red lines shown in the attached photos by up to 3m, maximum pruning cuts of 60mm to allow some light into this garden and some separation between the trees. Works to trees subject to Tree Preservation Order No. 2/1995 G14

Received
11 September 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
1
Council
Harrogate
Ward
Stray, Woodlands & Hookstone
  1. Received11 Sep
  2. Validated11 Sep
  3. Consult.11 Oct
  4. Target6 Nov
  5. Decided17 Oct

Decided in 36 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a tree application at Beechwood Cottage St Winifreds Road Harrogate North Yorkshire HG2 8LN. Harrogate has handled 2,683 applications of this type. This one was decided in 36 days, 13 days quicker than Harrogate's typical decision time. The site is in the Harrogate conservation area. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 20 applications across Stray, Woodlands & Hookstone. We hold 594 applications in total for the HG2 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
HG2 8LN
Application type
Protected Tree Works application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Harrogate

Planning application dates

Date validated
11 September 2024
Consultation expiry
13 October 2024
Consultation start
17 September 2024
Consultation end
11 October 2024
Target decision date
6 November 2024
Permission expires
17 October 2026

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

Publicity

Site notice start
19 September 2024
Site notice end
13 October 2024

Additional information

Documents
11

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Harrogate
  • 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

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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.

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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