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Village Hall Tofts Lane Follifoot North Yorkshire HG3 1DY

25/02809/TPOProtected Tree Works applicationRefused

Refused on 6 October 2025

Council decision: Application RefusedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Works to trees within Tree Preservation Order 66/2023 (HAR). Crown reduction (by 2.5m in height, 1m roadside, 3m field side and 1.5m neighbouring tree side) and crown thinning (by 10%-30%) of 2 no. Cherry trees (T1 and T2).

Received
14 August 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
3
Council
North Yorkshire
Ward
Spofforth,L Whdl,Tockwith
  1. Received14 Aug
  2. Validated14 Aug
  3. Consult.12 Sep
  4. Target9 Oct
  5. Decided6 Oct

Decided in 53 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a tree application at Village Hall Tofts Lane Follifoot North Yorkshire HG3 1DY. North Yorkshire has handled 360 applications of this type. This one was decided in 53 days, 4 days longer than North Yorkshire's typical decision time. The site is in the Follifoot conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 26 applications across Spofforth,L Whdl,Tockwith. We hold 3,250 applications in total for the HG3 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
HG3 1DY
Application type
Protected Tree Works application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Follifoot

Planning application dates

Date validated
14 August 2025
Consultation expiry
15 September 2025
Consultation start
19 August 2025
Consultation end
12 September 2025
Last date for comments
15 September 2025
Target decision date
9 October 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent
S Woodward Arborists
Agent address
Mr Sam Woodward 61 Kirkstall Lane Leeds LS5 3JZ

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
22 August 2025
Site notice end
15 September 2025

Additional information

Documents
10

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Follifoot
  • 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 (20)

flood storage 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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© 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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