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Valley Farm Howhill Quarry Road Beckwithshaw Harrogate North Yorkshire HG3 1QH

ZC24/02819/PBRPrior Notification Ag bld to residentialApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 20 November 2024

Council decision: Prior approval not requiredDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Prior Approval application to convert an agricultural building to form 1 no. dwelling, including associated building operations.

Received
20 August 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
3
Council
Harrogate
Ward
Washburn & Birstwith
Agent
Northern Planners
  1. Received20 Aug
  2. Validated2 Sep
  3. Consult.6 Oct
  4. Target22 Nov
  5. Decided20 Nov

Decided in 79 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an outline application at Valley Farm Howhill Quarry Road Beckwithshaw Harrogate North Yorkshire HG3 1QH. Harrogate has handled 809 applications of this type. This one was decided in 92 days, 6 weeks longer than Harrogate's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 15 applications across Washburn & Birstwith. We hold 3,250 applications in total for the HG3 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
HG3 1QH
Application type
Prior Notification Ag bld to residential
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Beckwithshaw

Planning application dates

Date validated
2 September 2024
Consultation expiry
17 November 2024
Consultation start
12 September 2024
Consultation end
6 October 2024
Target decision date
22 November 2024

Applicant and agent

Agent
Northern Planners
Agent address
Miss Sophie Cattlin Jubilee Court Copgrove Harrogate HG3 3TB United Kingdom

Planning decision

Statutory period
81 days

Publicity

Site notice start
24 October 2024
Site notice end
17 November 2024

Additional information

Documents
15

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Green belt: North Yorkshire
  • 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, 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

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© 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.

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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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