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2 Belford Place Harrogate North Yorkshire HG1 1HX

25/02756/TPOProtected Tree Works applicationApproved

Approved on 16 September 2025

Council decision: Application PermittedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Lateral reduction (to give 1m clearance from lamppost), crown lift (by 5.5m above highway and 4.5 on property side), pruning (to give 1m clearance from BT wires) and crown reduction (from 10m to 7m) of 1no Willow under TPO 62/2006 T1 Willow

Received
11 August 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
2
Council
North Yorkshire
Ward
Valley Gardens & Central Harrogate
  1. Received11 Aug
  2. Validated11 Aug
  3. Consult.7 Sep
  4. Target6 Oct
  5. Decided16 Sep

Decided in 36 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a tree application at 2 Belford Place Harrogate North Yorkshire HG1 1HX. North Yorkshire has handled 360 applications of this type. This one was decided in 36 days, 13 days quicker than North Yorkshire's typical decision time. The site is in a 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 1HX
Application type
Protected Tree Works application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Harrogate

Planning application dates

Date validated
11 August 2025
Consultation expiry
14 September 2025
Consultation start
14 August 2025
Consultation end
7 September 2025
Last date for comments
14 September 2025
Target decision date
6 October 2025
Permission expires
16 September 2027

Applicant and agent

Agent
T.Howie Tree Specialist
Agent address
Mr Tom Howie 11 Arant Close Harrogate North Yorkshire HG3 2WP

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
21 August 2025
Site notice end
14 September 2025

Additional information

Documents
6

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • 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

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© 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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