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Thrope Farm Lofthouse Harrogate North Yorkshire HG3 5SN

ZC24/04060/PNAPrior Notification AgricultureApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 12 December 2024

Council decision: Prior approval not requiredDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Erection of agricultural storage building

Received
29 November 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
2
Council
Harrogate
Ward
Pateley Bridge & Nidderdale
Agent
Hardcastle Rural Surveyors Ltd
  1. Received29 Nov
  2. Validated29 Nov
  3. Consult.4 Dec
  4. Target24 Jan
  5. Decided12 Dec

Decided in 13 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an outline application at Thrope Farm Lofthouse Harrogate North Yorkshire HG3 5SN. Harrogate has handled 809 applications of this type. This one was decided in 13 days, 5 weeks quicker than Harrogate's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded 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.

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 5SN
Application type
Prior Notification Agriculture
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Fountains Earth

Planning application dates

Date validated
29 November 2024
Consultation expiry
4 December 2024
Consultation end
4 December 2024
Target decision date
24 January 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent
Hardcastle Rural Surveyors Ltd
Agent address
Mr Andrew Hardcastle The Manse Main Street Kirkby Malzeard Ripon HG4 3RS

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
11

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
  • SSSI: Upper Nidderdale SSSI
  • 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, 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, 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.

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