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Highlander Hotel 15 - 16 Esplanade Scarborough North Yorkshire YO11 2AF

ZF25/00557/LBListed Building ConsentRefused

Refused on 21 August 2025

Council decision: Application RefusedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Redecoration to lower floors and boundary wall

Received
29 April 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
3
Council
Scarborough
Ward
Weaponness & Ramshill
  1. Received29 Apr
  2. Validated26 Jun
  3. Consult.18 Aug
  4. Target21 Aug
  5. Decided21 Aug

Decided in 56 days (council typically 91)

About this application

This is a heritage application at Highlander Hotel 15 - 16 Esplanade Scarborough North Yorkshire YO11 2AF. Scarborough has handled 354 applications of this type. This one was decided in 114 days, 3 weeks longer than Scarborough's typical decision time. The site is in the Scarborough conservation area, with 4 listed buildings nearby. There have been 4 other applications at this address. We hold 1,401 applications in total for the YO11 postcode area.

83% of heritage applications at Scarborough were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 13 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
YO11 2AF
Application type
Listed Building Consent
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Scarborough

Planning application dates

Date validated
26 June 2025
Last date for comments
18 August 2025
Target decision date
21 August 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent
S R Signs
Agent address
Wortley Moor Lane Leeds LS12 4HX United Kingdom

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Appeal history

6004046
Dismissed
Type: Listed Building Consent & Conservation Area Consent AppealProcedure: Written RepresentationsDecision: 7 July 2026Dev Type: Other minor developmentsReason: refused

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13962940
Documents
4

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Scarborough
  • Heritage at Risk Register: Scarborough
  • 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 (20)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, 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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© Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

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Source: Scarborough

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