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Willow Hill Farm Smithy Lane Denton Ilkley North Yorkshire LS29 0HL

ZC23/03148/FULFull permissionRefused
Full

Refused on 26 October 2023

Council decision: Application RefusedDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Conversion of an agricultural building to a dwelling house and demolition of a separate agricultural building at Willow Hill Farm.

Received
23 August 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
9
Council
Harrogate
Ward
Washburn & Birstwith
Agent
Directions Planning Consultancy Ltd
  1. Received23 Aug
  2. Validated1 Sep
  3. Consult.28 Sep
  4. Target27 Oct
  5. Decided26 Oct

Decided in 55 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application for demolition at Willow Hill Farm Smithy Lane Denton Ilkley North Yorkshire LS29 0HL. Harrogate has handled 5,591 applications of this type. This one was decided in 64 days, 2 weeks longer than Harrogate's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 14 applications across Washburn & Birstwith. We hold 2,381 applications in total for the LS29 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
LS29 0HL
Application type
Full permission
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Denton

Planning application dates

Date validated
1 September 2023
Consultation expiry
8 October 2023
Consultation start
4 September 2023
Consultation end
28 September 2023
Target decision date
27 October 2023

Applicant and agent

Agent
Directions Planning Consultancy Ltd
Agent address
Ms Kathryn Jukes 23 Victoria Avenue Harrogate HG1 5RD

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
14 September 2023
Site notice end
8 October 2023

Additional information

Documents
25

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • National Landscape (AONB): Nidderdale
  • 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, conservation 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, 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.

© 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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