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Land To East New Road Drax North Yorkshire

ZG2025/0402/DOCDischarge of Planning ConditionApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 4 July 2025

Council decision: Conditions part dischargedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Discharge of conditions 31 (Construction Phasing Plan) and 35 (CEMP - External Lighting Plan) of approval 2022/9711/EIA Hybrid Planning Application comprising two parts: (Part 1) Outline planning application (all matters reserved) for the construction of a converter station at Drax, Selby; (Part 2) full planning application for the installation of high voltage direct current (HVDC) underground cables from the River Ouse to the converter station and high voltage alternating current (HVAC) underground cables from the converter station to the existing Drax Substation as well as all associated temporary works including compounds, accesses and bellmouths as part of the construction of Scotland-England Green Link 2 (SEGL2), a two gigawatt (GW) reinforcement of the electricity transmission system between Peterhead, Scotland and Drax, England. [Installation of underground HVDC cables from Mean Low Water Springs (MLWS) at Fraisthorpe, East Riding to the River Ouse and associated temporary works relating to land in an adjoining authority]

Received
10 April 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
4
Council
Selby
Ward
Camblesforth And Carlton
  1. Received10 Apr
  2. Validated10 Apr
  3. Consult.24 Jun
  4. Target4 Jul
  5. Decided4 Jul

Decided in 85 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to discharge conditions at Land To East New Road Drax North Yorkshire. Selby has handled 519 applications of this type. This one was decided in 85 days, 4 weeks longer than Selby's typical decision time. There have been 17 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 34 applications across Camblesforth And Carlton.

95% of conditions applications at Selby were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Application type
Discharge of Planning Condition
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Long Drax Parish Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
10 April 2025
Consultation expiry
24 June 2025
Consultation start
10 June 2025
Consultation end
24 June 2025
Last date for comments
24 June 2025
Target decision date
4 July 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent
Prysmian Powerlink S.r.l
Agent address
Prysmian Powerlink S.r.l Via Chiese, 6 Milan 20126 ITALY

Planning decision

Statutory period
85 days

Additional information

Constraints
52

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

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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.

© 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.

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Planning history at this site

17 other applications at this property, newest first.

  1. 2026
    6 Mar

    Discharge of conditions 31 (CPP), 32 (CMS), 33 (trees) and 34 (landscaping) of approval 2022/0711/EIA

    Conditions part dischargedDischarge of conditionsZG2026/0208/DOC
  2. 2026
    6 Mar

    Discharge of condition 42 (archaeology) of approval 2022/0711/EIA

    Condition decisionDischarge of conditionsZG2026/0206/DOC
  3. 2026
    2 Feb

    Section 73 application to vary condition 01 (approved plans), remove condition 02 (building colour scheme) of…

    PendingVariation of conditions (s73)ZG2026/0098/S73
  4. 2026
    26 Jan

    Discharge of conditions 50 (CPP), 51 (CMS), 52 (trees), 53 (land restoration), 60 (contamination) of approval…

    Condition decisionDischarge of conditionsZG2026/0064/DOC
  5. 2026
    26 Jan

    Discharge of conditions 14 (Construction Environmental Management Plan), 18 (drainage), 19 (rate of…

    Condition decisionDischarge of conditionsZG2026/0065/DOC
  6. 2026
    15 Jan

    Discharge of conditions 39 (permanent water course crossing infrastructure), 40 (construction scheme) and 41…

    PendingDischarge of conditionsZG2026/0037/DOC

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