Drax Power Station New Road Drax Selby North Yorkshire YO8 8PH
Approved on 23 December 2025
Council decision: EIA Not RequiredDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
EIA Screening Opinion in relation to the erection of a data centre (Use Class B8) with ancillary office space, external plant, site access, parking, cabling, landscaping and associated works
- Received
- 9 December 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Public comments
- 3
- Council
- Selby
- Ward
- Camblesforth And Carlton
- ReceivedReceived9 Dec
- ValidatedValidated9 Dec
- Consult.Consultation1 Jan
- TargetTarget Date30 Dec
- DecidedDecided23 Dec
Decided in 14 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is an outline application at Drax Power Station New Road Drax Selby North Yorkshire YO8 8PH. Selby has handled 341 applications of this type. This one was decided in 14 days, 6 weeks quicker 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.
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 8PH
- Application type
- Screening Option
- Scale / size
- Medium
- Parish
- Long Drax Parish Council
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 9 December 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 1 January 2026
- Consultation start
- 11 December 2025
- Consultation end
- 1 January 2026
- Last date for comments
- 1 January 2026
- Target decision date
- 30 December 2025
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Newmark
- Agent address
- Newmark No 1 Marsden Street MANCHESTER M2 1HW
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 21 days
Additional information
- Documents
- 6
- Constraints
- 39
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.
© 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.
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Planning history at this site
1 other application at this property, newest first.
Source: Selby
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