Old Town Hall Church Street Whitby North Yorkshire YO22 4AE

SCAZF25/00367/PEPreliminary EnquiryApproved

Outline / PiP

Approved on 17 July 2025

Council decision: DeterminedDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Enquiry into clock face replacement and clock tower render

Received: 14 March 2025
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Council: Harrogate
Ward: Whitby Streonshalh

ReceivedReceived14 Mar
ValidatedValidated24 Mar
Consult.Consultation
TargetTarget Date14 Apr
DecidedDecided17 Jul

Decided in 115 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an outline application at Old Town Hall Church Street Whitby North Yorkshire YO22 4AE. Harrogate has handled 809 applications of this type. This one was decided in 125 days, 11 weeks longer than Harrogate's typical decision time. The site is in the Whitby conservation area, with 20 listed buildings nearby. There have been 5 other applications at this address. We hold 229 applications in total for the YO22 postcode area.

79% of outline 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: YO22 4AE
Application type: Preliminary Enquiry
Scale / size: Small
Parish: Whitby (Scarborough)

Planning application dates

Date validated: 24 March 2025
Target decision date: 14 April 2025

Planning decision

Statutory period: 21 days

Additional information

Comments: 0
Documents: 0

Site constraints

Checking the site

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Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

Flood zone 2: Medium probability (rivers and sea)
Conservation area: Whitby
Listed building: Grade II: 19 and 20, Church StreetOn or next to this site · +3 more

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.

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.

Source: Harrogate

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