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Nidd Valley Saw Mills Dacre Banks Harrogate North Yorkshire HG3 4EA

HGTZC24/04035/FULMAJFull application - MajorRefused
Full

Refused on 17 July 2025

Council decision: Application RefusedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Full planning application for the conversion and extension of the mill to form 5No. apartments and 3No. dwellings, erection of 3No. dwellings, erection of 3No. employment buildings (Use Class E(g)(iii)), drainage and landscaping.

Received
27 November 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
25
Council
Harrogate
Ward
Pateley Bridge & Nidderdale
  1. Received27 Nov
  2. Validated6 Dec
  3. Consult.20 Jul
  4. Target18 Jul
  5. Decided17 Jul

Decided in 223 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application for an extension at Nidd Valley Saw Mills Dacre Banks Harrogate North Yorkshire HG3 4EA. Harrogate has handled 5,591 applications of this type. This one was decided in 232 days, 26 weeks longer than Harrogate's typical decision time. The site is in 2 listed buildings nearby. There have been 3 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 13 applications across Pateley Bridge & Nidderdale. We hold 3,250 applications in total for the HG3 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
HG3 4EA
Application type
Full application - Major
Scale / size
Large
Parish
Dacre

Planning application dates

Date validated
6 December 2024
Consultation expiry
20 July 2025
Consultation start
26 June 2025
Consultation end
20 July 2025
Neighbour consultation start
17 July 2025
Last date for comments
20 July 2025
Target decision date
18 July 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent
DPP
Agent address
Miss Abigail Tucker 1 Park Row Leeds West Yorkshire LS1 5HN United Kingdom

Planning decision

Statutory period
224 days

Publicity

Last advertised
19 December 2024
Advertisement expiry
12 January 2025
Site notice start
17 December 2024
Site notice end
10 January 2025

Additional information

Documents
128

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)Part of the site
  • Listed building: Grade II: Summer BridgeOn or next to this site
  • National Landscape (AONB): Nidderdale
  • Brownfield land register: Nidd Valley Saw Mills, Dacre BanksRegister site at or near this address

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, conservation 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, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves and heritage coasts.

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.

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