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Otters Holt Mill Lane Boroughbridge York North Yorkshire YO51 9LH

ZC25/00177/TPOProtected Tree Works applicationApproved

Approved on 5 March 2025

Council decision: Application PermittedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Lateral reduction (by 2m) of 1 no. Black Poplar (T1) within Tree Preservation Order 32/2016.

Received
22 January 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
3
Council
Harrogate
Ward
Boroughbridge & Claro
  1. Received22 Jan
  2. Validated22 Jan
  3. Consult.20 Feb
  4. Target19 Mar
  5. Decided5 Mar

Decided in 42 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a tree application at Otters Holt Mill Lane Boroughbridge York North Yorkshire YO51 9LH. Harrogate has handled 2,683 applications of this type. This one was decided in 42 days, 7 days quicker than Harrogate's typical decision time. The site is in the Boroughbridge conservation area. There have been 3 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 20 applications across Boroughbridge & Claro. We hold 1,085 applications in total for the YO51 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
YO51 9LH
Application type
Protected Tree Works application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Boroughbridge

Planning application dates

Date validated
22 January 2025
Consultation expiry
1 March 2025
Consultation start
27 January 2025
Consultation end
20 February 2025
Target decision date
19 March 2025
Permission expires
5 March 2027

Applicant and agent

Agent
Scotton Tree Care
Agent address
Mr Kevin Davison 7 Harclay Garth Boroughbridge YO51 9GL

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
5 February 2025
Site notice end
1 March 2025

Additional information

Documents
7

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

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 (19)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, 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.

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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