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Harkers Cafe Bar 1 St Helens Square York YO1 8QN

26/00384/TCNOTTelecommunication NoticeRefused

Refused on 20 March 2026

Council decision: ObjectionsDelegated (officer decision)

Site boundary (council red line)

Proposal

Notification under section 5 of The Electronic Communications Code (Conditions and Restrictions) Regulations 2003 for the following equipment; installation of fixed line broadband electronic communications apparatus to a listed building

Received
26 February 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
1
Ward
Guildhall
  1. Received26 Feb
  2. Validated26 Feb
  3. Consult.
  4. Target26 Mar
  5. Decided20 Mar

Decided in 22 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a telecoms application at Harkers Cafe Bar 1 St Helens Square York YO1 8QN. York has handled 115 applications of this type. This one was decided in 22 days, 5 weeks quicker than York's typical decision time. The site is in the Central Historic Core conservation area, with 20 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 94 applications across Guildhall. We hold 335 applications in total for the YO1 postcode area.

97% of telecoms 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
YO1 8QN
Application type
Telecommunication Notice
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Guildhall Planning Panel

Planning application dates

Date validated
26 February 2026
Target decision date
26 March 2026
Permission expires
20 March 2031

Planning decision

Statutory period
28 days

Additional information

Documents
3
Constraints
5

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

Not published by this council, so not checked: tree preservation orders. Ask the council if these matter.

Also checked, none recorded (20)

flood storage areas, 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: York

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