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51 St Olaves Road York YO30 7AL

25/00328/CLUCertificate of Lawful Existing UseApproved
Lawful development certificate

Approved on 23 May 2025

Council decision: GrantDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
Boundary © HM Land Registry, © Ordnance Survey · details

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Proposal

Certificate of lawfulness for use as House in Multiple Occupation (Use Class C4) with up to 6 occupants

Received
20 February 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
2
Ward
Clifton
  1. Received20 Feb
  2. Validated24 Mar
  3. Consult.14 Apr
  4. Target23 May
  5. Decided23 May

Decided in 60 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at 51 St Olaves Road York YO30 7AL. York has handled 172 applications of this type. This one was decided in 92 days, 5 weeks longer than York's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 12 applications across Clifton. We hold 426 applications in total for the YO30 postcode area.

91% of amendment applications at City of York Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
YO30 7AL
Application type
Certificate of Lawful Existing Use
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Clifton Planning Panel

Planning application dates

Date validated
24 March 2025
Consultation expiry
14 April 2025
Consultation start
24 March 2025
Consultation end
14 April 2025
Neighbour consultation start
24 March 2025
Neighbour consultation end
14 April 2025
Last date for comments
14 April 2025
Target decision date
23 May 2025
Permission expires
23 May 2030

Planning decision

Statutory period
60 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13748028
Documents
5
Constraints
2

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Clifton Conservation AreaNext to the site
  • Article 4 direction: Hmo
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Not published by this council, so not checked: 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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