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Alma Chambers Otley Street Skipton North Yorkshire BD23 1EH

26/00198/LBListed Building consentApproved

Approved on 28 April 2026

Council decision: Application PermittedDelegated (officer decision)2 conditions

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Listed building consent for change of Use from Vacant Place of Worship (Class F1) to Offices (Class E)

Received
13 January 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
1
Council
North Yorkshire
Ward
Skipton North & Embsay-with-Eastby
Agent
Planning-By-Design
  1. Received13 Jan
  2. Validated13 Jan
  3. Consult.12 Feb
  4. Target29 Apr
  5. Decided28 Apr

Decided in 105 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a heritage application for a change of use at Alma Chambers Otley Street Skipton North Yorkshire BD23 1EH. North Yorkshire has handled 115 applications of this type. This one was decided in 105 days, 8 weeks longer than North Yorkshire's typical decision time. The site is in the Sunderland Point conservation area, with 7 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 59 applications across Skipton North & Embsay-with-Eastby. We hold 5,308 applications in total for the BD23 postcode area.

94% of heritage 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
BD23 1EH
Application type
Listed Building consent
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Skipton

Planning application dates

Date validated
13 January 2026
Consultation expiry
22 February 2026
Consultation start
19 January 2026
Consultation end
12 February 2026
Last date for comments
22 February 2026
Target decision date
29 April 2026
Permission expires
28 April 2029

Applicant and agent

Agent
Planning-By-Design
Architect profile
PLANNING BY DESIGN LTD
Agent address
Mr Aaron Basi 167-169 Great Portland Street London W1W 5PF

Planning decision

Statutory period
106 days

Publicity

Last advertised
29 January 2026
Advertisement expiry
22 February 2026
Site notice start
22 January 2026
Site notice end
15 February 2026

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14614571
Documents
14

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 (21)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, 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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© 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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