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land north of Butt Lane, Foxholes, Driffield, YO25 3HY

NY/2025/0017/SCROutlineApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 6 February 2025

Council decision: Screening Opinion IssuedD

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Request for a formal Screening Opinion for the construction of a temporary wellsite,operation of a drilling rig for the exploration of subsurface hydrocarbons, testing and retention of the equipment

Received
20 January 2025
Decision level
D
Council
North Yorkshire
Ward
Thornton Dale and The Wolds
  1. Received20 Jan
  2. Validated20 Jan
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided6 Feb

Decided in 17 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an outline application at land north of Butt Lane, Foxholes, Driffield, YO25 3HY. North Yorkshire has handled 142 applications of this type. This one was decided in 17 days, 5 weeks quicker than North Yorkshire's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 1 application across Thornton Dale and The Wolds. We hold 2,841 applications in total for the YO25 postcode area.

82% of outline 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
YO25 3HY
Application type
Outline
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Foxholes
District
Ryedale

Planning application dates

Date validated
20 January 2025

Additional information

Documents
7

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • 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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