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Village Hall Tofts Lane Follifoot North Yorkshire

25/03505/TPOProtected Tree Works applicationApproved

Approved on 1 December 2025

Council decision: Part Approved and Part RefusedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Works to 2no Cherry Blossom (T1 and T2) subject to tree preservation order R66/2023 Crown reduction (by 1.5m), lateral reduction (by 1m) to create distance from telephone line, lateral reduction (by 3m) to clear from field, lateral reduction (by 1.5m) to clear the road and car park and a lateral reduction (by 1m) to clear the trees of eachother

Received
10 October 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
3
Council
North Yorkshire
Ward
Spofforth,L Whdl,Tockwith
  1. Received10 Oct
  2. Validated10 Oct
  3. Consult.8 Nov
  4. Target5 Dec
  5. Decided1 Dec

Decided in 52 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a tree application at Village Hall Tofts Lane Follifoot North Yorkshire. North Yorkshire has handled 360 applications of this type. This one was decided in 52 days, 3 days longer than North Yorkshire's typical decision time. The site is in the Follifoot conservation area. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 26 applications across Spofforth,L Whdl,Tockwith.

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

Application type
Protected Tree Works application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Follifoot

Planning application dates

Date validated
10 October 2025
Consultation expiry
23 November 2025
Consultation start
15 October 2025
Consultation end
8 November 2025
Last date for comments
23 November 2025
Target decision date
5 December 2025
Permission expires
1 December 2027

Applicant and agent

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

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
30 October 2025
Site notice end
23 November 2025

Additional information

Documents
8

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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© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

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Source: North Yorkshire

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