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6 Harcourt Drive Harrogate North Yorkshire HG1 5AB

25/02632/TCONTree works in Conservation AreasApproved

Approved on 4 August 2025

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

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

Proposal

Works to 1 No beech tree (T1) crown lift over highway to give clearance of 5.2m, reduce lateral growth property side on the lower to mid canopy by 1.5m, 1 no Contourted Willow (T2) repollard canopy removing approximately 2.5m and 1 No Silver Birch (T3) lateral reduction on both sides of properties by 1.5m. Crown reduction by 1.5m in Harrogate conservation area.

Received
30 July 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
2
Council
North Yorkshire
Ward
Valley Gardens & Central Harrogate
  1. Received30 Jul
  2. Validated30 Jul
  3. Consult.25 Aug
  4. Target10 Sep
  5. Decided4 Aug

Decided in 5 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a tree application at 6 Harcourt Drive Harrogate North Yorkshire HG1 5AB. North Yorkshire has handled 360 applications of this type. This one was decided in 5 days, 6 weeks quicker than North Yorkshire's typical decision time. The site is in the Harrogate conservation area. There have been 3 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 82 applications across Valley Gardens & Central Harrogate. We hold 3,223 applications in total for the HG1 postcode area.

92% of trees applications at North Yorkshire were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 7 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
HG1 5AB
Application type
Tree works in Conservation Areas
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Harrogate

Planning application dates

Date validated
30 July 2025
Consultation expiry
25 August 2025
Consultation start
1 August 2025
Consultation end
25 August 2025
Last date for comments
25 August 2025
Target decision date
10 September 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent
T.Howie Tree Specialist
Agent address
Mr Tom Howie 159 Woodfield Road Harrogate HG1 4JB

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

Documents
4

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: Harrogate
  • 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, 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, 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

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: North Yorkshire

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