Duncombe Sawmills Sawmill Lane Helmsley North Yorkshire YO62 5DQ
Approved on 16 September 2021
Council decision: ApprovalDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Certificate of Lawfulness for existing development to confirm that any building works were completed more than 4 years before the date of this application and that the site has been used as a sawmill with timber processing and manufacturing, storage and retail of timber and associated products (sui generis use class) for a continuous period that began more than 10 years before the date of this application.
- Received
- 15 June 2021
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Ryedale
- Ward
- Helmsley (Ceased March 2023)
- ReceivedReceived15 Jun
- ValidatedValidated15 Jun
- Consult.Consultation13 Jul
- TargetTarget Date10 Aug
- DecidedDecided16 Sep
Decided in 93 days (council typically 70)
About this application
This is an application to amend a permission at Duncombe Sawmills Sawmill Lane Helmsley North Yorkshire YO62 5DQ. Ryedale has handled 86 applications of this type. This one was decided in 93 days, 3 weeks longer than Ryedale's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 627 applications in total for the YO62 postcode area.
80% of amendment applications at Ryedale were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 10 weeks (median).
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Application details
- Postcode
- YO62 5DQ
- Application type
- Cert Lawful exist use or develop
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Helmsley Town Council
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 15 June 2021
- Consultation expiry
- 16 July 2021
- Consultation start
- 22 June 2021
- Consultation end
- 13 July 2021
- Neighbour consultation start
- 22 June 2021
- Neighbour consultation end
- 16 July 2021
- Last date for comments
- 16 July 2021
- Target decision date
- 10 August 2021
- Committee meeting
- 17 September 2021
- Permission expires
- 16 September 2024
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- Chestnut House Skipwith Road Escrick York YO19 6JU
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Publicity
- Site notice start
- 23 June 2021
- Site notice end
- 14 July 2021
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)Part of the site
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 (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.
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