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Ripon Cathedral Minster Road Ripon North Yorkshire HG4 1QT

HGTZC24/03271/FULFull permissionApproved
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Approved on 14 March 2025

Council decision: Application PermittedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Installation of photovoltaic panels on the Library Roof and the South Nave Aisle Roof of Ripon Cathedral. The photovoltaic panels on the Library Roof will be secured using a ballasted frame system, mounted at a 10-degree angle to avoid excessive wind loading and minimize ballast requirements. The photovoltaic panels on the South Nave Aisle Roof will be mounted on trisole mounting frames at a 20-degree tilt. The trisoles will be secured to a fixing post system, which will be anchored through the existing modern lead roof covering into the underlying structure.

Received
24 September 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
11
Council
Harrogate
Ward
Ripon Minster & Moorside
Agent
Caroe Architecture Ltd
  1. Received24 Sep
  2. Validated24 Sep
  3. Consult.20 Feb
  4. Target17 Mar
  5. Decided14 Mar

Decided in 171 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a solar installation at Ripon Cathedral Minster Road Ripon North Yorkshire HG4 1QT. Harrogate has handled 5,591 applications of this type. This one was decided in 171 days, 17 weeks longer than Harrogate's typical decision time. The site is in the Ripon conservation area, with 10 listed buildings nearby. There have been 4 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 4 applications across Ripon Minster & Moorside. 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 1QT
Application type
Full permission
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Ripon City Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
24 September 2024
Consultation expiry
20 February 2025
Consultation start
27 January 2025
Consultation end
20 February 2025
Target decision date
17 March 2025
Permission expires
14 March 2028

Applicant and agent

Agent
Caroe Architecture Ltd
Architect profile
CAROE ARCHITECTURE LTD
Agent address
Mr Oliver Caroe Office 5 Unit 8 23-25 Gwydir Street Cambridge CB1 2LG United Kingdom

Planning decision

Statutory period
174 days

Publicity

Site notice start
9 October 2024
Site notice end
2 November 2024

Additional information

Documents
50

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

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 (18)

flood storage areas, green belt, 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.

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