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Chapel Farm Fearby Ripon North Yorkshire HG4 4NF

ZC23/04122/TCONTree works in Conservation AreasApproved

Approved on 20 November 2023

Council decision: Tree Work in Conservation Area approvedDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

(T241) Oak Tree - remove ivy and deadwood and dead pruning stubs. (T242) Oak Tree - remove deadwood. (T243) Ash Tree - sever ivy. (T244) Sycamore Tree - remove epicormic and elder at base, remove deadwood. (T245) Oak Tree - remove dead brances and deadwood, remove hanging branches and clean up tear, reduce lower southern limb by 3m to bring back to drip line - within Fearby Conservation Area.

Received
13 November 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
1
Council
Harrogate
Ward
Masham & Fountains
  1. Received13 Nov
  2. Validated17 Nov
  3. Consult.11 Dec
  4. Target29 Dec
  5. Decided20 Nov

Decided in 3 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a tree application at Chapel Farm Fearby Ripon North Yorkshire HG4 4NF. Harrogate has handled 2,683 applications of this type. This one was decided in 7 days, 6 weeks quicker than Harrogate's typical decision time. The site is in the Fearby conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 19 applications across Masham & Fountains. We hold 2,235 applications in total for the HG4 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
HG4 4NF
Application type
Tree works in Conservation Areas
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Fearby

Planning application dates

Date validated
17 November 2023
Consultation expiry
11 December 2023
Consultation start
17 November 2023
Consultation end
11 December 2023
Target decision date
29 December 2023

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Mr William Richardson Meadowside Pottery Lane Littlethorpe Ripon HG4 3LS

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

Documents
6

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • Conservation area: Fearby
  • 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 (20)

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, 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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