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Drax Power Station New Road Drax Selby North Yorkshire YO8 8PH

ZG2025/1003/HDGHedgerow removalsApproved

Approved on 2 December 2025

Council decision: PermittedDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Removal of hedgerow notice for removal of 170 metres of hedgerow

Received
1 October 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
4
Council
Selby
Ward
Camblesforth And Carlton
  1. Received1 Oct
  2. Validated21 Oct
  3. Consult.26 Nov
  4. Target2 Dec
  5. Decided2 Dec

Decided in 42 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at Drax Power Station New Road Drax Selby North Yorkshire YO8 8PH. Selby has handled 606 applications of this type. This one was decided in 62 days, 6 days longer than Selby's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application 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.

80% of trees 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
Hedgerow removals
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Long Drax Parish Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
21 October 2025
Consultation expiry
26 November 2025
Consultation start
5 November 2025
Consultation end
26 November 2025
Last date for comments
26 November 2025
Target decision date
2 December 2025
Permission expires
1 October 2027

Applicant and agent

Agent
Balfour Beatty
Agent address
Raynesway DERBY DE21 7BG

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

Documents
17
Constraints
39

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • 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 (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

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.

Source: Selby

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