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School Cottage Moor Lane Thornton Steward Ripon North Yorkshire HG4 4BD

ZD25/00148/TCATrees in Conservation AreasApproved

Approved on 23 April 2025

Council decision: Application PermittedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Notice of intention for works to T1 apple tree to reduce down to cold cuts approximately 2m. Start height 8m end 6m. Pulling branches away from electric lines that run through garden

Received
14 March 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
1
Council
Richmondshire
Ward
Scotton & Lower Wensleydale
  1. Received14 Mar
  2. Validated14 Mar
  3. Consult.
  4. Target25 Apr
  5. Decided23 Apr

Decided in 40 days (council typically 63)

About this application

This is a tree application at School Cottage Moor Lane Thornton Steward Ripon North Yorkshire HG4 4BD. Richmondshire has handled 139 applications of this type. This one was decided in 40 days, 3 weeks quicker than Richmondshire's typical decision time. The site is in the Thornton Steward conservation area, with 2 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 2,235 applications in total for the HG4 postcode area.

84% of trees applications at Richmondshire were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 9 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
HG4 4BD
Application type
Trees in Conservation Areas
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Thornton Steward Parish Meeting

Planning application dates

Date validated
14 March 2025
Target decision date
25 April 2025
Permission expires
23 April 2027

Applicant and agent

Agent address
39 Ceres Road Wetherby West Yorkshire LS22 6JX United Kingdom

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

Documents
6
Constraints
3

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • Conservation area: Thornton Steward
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions and tree preservation orders. Ask the council if these matter.

Also checked, none recorded (21)

flood storage 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: Richmondshire

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