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Low Barn Preston Under Scar Leyburn North Yorkshire DL8 4AQ

ZD26/00114/TCATrees in Conservation AreasApproved

Approved on 24 March 2026

Council decision: Application PermittedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Notice of intention to perform a 30% Crown Reduction on a single mature Birch tree, having consulted with a professional arborist

Received
20 February 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Council
Richmondshire
Ward
Leyburn & Middleham
  1. Received20 Feb
  2. Validated20 Feb
  3. Consult.
  4. Target3 Apr
  5. Decided24 Mar

Decided in 32 days (council typically 63)

About this application

This is a tree application at Low Barn Preston Under Scar Leyburn North Yorkshire DL8 4AQ. Richmondshire has handled 139 applications of this type. This one was decided in 32 days, 4 weeks quicker than Richmondshire's typical decision time. The site is in the Preston under Scar conservation area. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 33 applications across Leyburn & Middleham. We hold 1,067 applications in total for the DL8 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
DL8 4AQ
Application type
Trees in Conservation Areas
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Preston-Under-Scar Parish Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
20 February 2026
Target decision date
3 April 2026
Permission expires
24 March 2028

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
5
Constraints
2

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Preston under Scar
  • 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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