Lytag Drax Power Station New Road Drax North Yorkshire YO8 8PH
Approved on 19 March 2024
Council decision: PermittedDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
Installation of a new dust filtration unit and new steelwork which would provide maintenance access to the filtration unit
- Received
- 13 October 2023
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Public comments
- 3
- Council
- Selby
- Ward
- Camblesforth And Carlton
- ReceivedReceived13 Oct
- ValidatedValidated1 Dec
- Consult.Consultation5 Jan
- TargetTarget Date19 Mar
- DecidedDecided19 Mar
Decided in 109 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a full planning application at Lytag Drax Power Station New Road Drax North Yorkshire YO8 8PH. Selby has handled 2,756 applications of this type. This one was decided in 158 days, 15 weeks longer than Selby's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 34 applications across Camblesforth And Carlton. We hold 2,343 applications in total for the YO8 postcode area.
84% of full 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 8PH
- Application type
- Full Application
- Scale / size
- Medium
- Parish
- Long Drax Parish Council
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 1 December 2023
- Consultation expiry
- 19 February 2024
- Consultation start
- 15 December 2023
- Consultation end
- 5 January 2024
- Last date for comments
- 20 February 2024
- Target decision date
- 19 March 2024
- Permission expires
- 19 March 2027
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Stantec
- Agent address
- Stantec 9 George Square GLASGOW G2 1DY
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 109 days
Publicity
- Site notice start
- 29 January 2024
- Site notice end
- 19 February 2024
Additional information
- Documents
- 21
- Constraints
- 40
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- Flood zone 3: High 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 (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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© 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.
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© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.
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