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Selby Station Station Road Selby North Yorkshire YO8 4NW

2022/0031/EIAApplication submitted with EIAApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 20 September 2022

Council decision: PermittedPlanning committee

Proposal

External and associated internal alterations to Selby rail station, demolition in a conservation of the part of the station building, Selby Business Centre, the Railway Sports and Social Club, James Williams House, boundary walls along Ousegate at the entrance to Cowie Drive, and lean-to at the railway goods shed. Reconfiguration of the bus station, highway alignments along Station Road, Ousegate, the Crescent/Park Street Junction. Public realm and landscaping improvements at the Wharf on Ousegate, Station Road and Selby Park. The creation of an underpass tunnel beneath Bawtry Road and creation of a new surface car park at Cowie Drive and new pedestrian and cycle access into the station from Cowie Drive. Inclusion of new bus stands, street furniture and EV bus charging points.

Received
10 January 2022
Decision level
Planning committee
Public comments
23
Council
Selby
Ward
Selby East
  1. Received10 Jan
  2. Validated17 Jan
  3. Consult.17 Aug
  4. Target30 Sep
  5. Decided20 Sep

Decided in 246 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for demolition at Selby Station Station Road Selby North Yorkshire YO8 4NW. Selby has handled 341 applications of this type. This one was decided in 253 days, 28 weeks longer than Selby's typical decision time. The site is in the Selby Town conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There have been 6 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 21 applications across Selby East. We hold 2,343 applications in total for the YO8 postcode area.

78% of outline applications at Selby were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
YO8 4NW
Application type
Application submitted with EIA
Scale / size
Large
Parish
Selby Town Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
17 January 2022
Consultation expiry
8 September 2022
Consultation start
3 August 2022
Consultation end
17 August 2022
Neighbour consultation start
30 August 2022
Last date for comments
8 September 2022
Target decision date
30 September 2022
Committee meeting
7 September 2022
Permission expires
20 September 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent
WSP
Agent address
WSP 8 First Street Manchester M15 4RP

Planning decision

Statutory period
256 days

Publicity

Last advertised
18 August 2022
Advertisement expiry
8 September 2022
Site notice start
24 January 2022
Site notice end
23 February 2022

Additional information

Documents
219
Constraints
239

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: Selby Town
  • 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.

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