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Old Orchard Cottage 137 Forest Lane Harrogate North Yorkshire HG2 7EQ

26/00493/TPOProtected Tree Works applicationApproved

Approved on 13 March 2026

Council decision: Application PermittedDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Lateral reduction on the North, West and East sides up to 2 metres of 1 no. Ash (T12) of Tree Preservation Order 35/1996 (T1 on submitted plan).

Received
30 January 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
2
Council
North Yorkshire
Ward
Fairfax & Starbeck
  1. Received30 Jan
  2. Validated30 Jan
  3. Consult.23 Feb
  4. Target27 Mar
  5. Decided13 Mar

Decided in 42 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a tree application at Old Orchard Cottage 137 Forest Lane Harrogate North Yorkshire HG2 7EQ. North Yorkshire has handled 360 applications of this type. This one was decided in 42 days, 7 days quicker than North Yorkshire's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 4 applications across Fairfax & Starbeck. We hold 594 applications in total for the HG2 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
HG2 7EQ
Application type
Protected Tree Works application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Harrogate

Planning application dates

Date validated
30 January 2026
Consultation expiry
8 March 2026
Consultation start
30 January 2026
Consultation end
23 February 2026
Last date for comments
8 March 2026
Target decision date
27 March 2026
Permission expires
13 March 2028

Applicant and agent

Agent address
39 Ceres Road Wetherby LS22 6JX United Kingdom

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
12 February 2026
Site notice end
8 March 2026

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14664956
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.

  • 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 (22)

flood storage areas, conservation 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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