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Proposal

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Application progress

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Received

18 Feb 2026

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Validated

16 Mar 2026

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Consultation

30 Apr 2026

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Approved

11 May 2026

Approved on 11 May 2026 · Chief Planner · Last checked 6 Jul 2026

Documents 6

Site constraints 7

Nidderdale National Landscape

Great weight to conserving the landscape; major development restricted.

Previously an area of outstanding natural beauty, which is still the designation in law. Since 2023 authorities must seek to further its purpose, not merely have regard to it.

Public footpath about 10 m away

Matters where it crosses or adjoins the site: obstructing a path without a diversion order is an offence, and work cannot start until the order is confirmed.

Compiled from highway authority data, not the legal definitive map. A few authorities have not published, so no path shown is not proof there is none.

Agricultural land, grade 5

Very poor quality farmland, not best and most versatile. Source: the Predictive Agricultural Land Classification Map (Defra and Natural England, 2025; the Welsh Government's Predictive ALC Map 2 in Wales), a model rather than a site survey. Natural England's Provisional ALC map (1:250,000, 1970s) agrees.

Where development of farmland is needed, policy prefers poorer land over the best and most versatile (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Three sources: Natural England's post-1988 field surveys, which are definitive where they exist; the Defra predictive map for England (2025) and the Welsh Government predictive map, modelled from the soil map with 3a and 3b split; and the 1970s provisional map, which planners and other services still show, coarser and with grade 3 undivided. Where the provisional and predicted grades disagree, treat the predicted grade as the current estimate and expect an application to carry its own survey.

Habitat network: Network Enhancement Zone 1

Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.

Also on the record

Radon affected area, class 4; Coalfield, development low risk area; Priority habitat about 18 m away: Upland hay meadow.

Not affected

Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 6 October 2026. The pin for this application is the centre of its postcode rather than the building, so distances to nearby designations are measured from the postcode and can be out by the width of the postcode area. Historic England, the Environment Agency, Natural England, the Mining Remediation Authority, the British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency (radon, contains BGS materials © UKRI) and council datasets, Open Government Licence. A boundary can run through a site and the council holds the definitive record: confirm with the council before relying on this.

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Important details

Council: Harrogate
Application type: Prior Notif Solar Equip on non-domestic
Postcode: HG3 5TA
Received: 18 Feb 2026
Validated: 16 Mar 2026
Ward: Pateley Bridge & Nidderdale
Parish: Stonebeck Up
Case officer: Show
Target decision: 11 May 2026
Decision: Prior approval not required
Decision date: 11 May 2026
Decision level: Chief Planner
Applicant: Show

How this decision compares

Decided in 56 days from validation, 11 days slower than Harrogate's median of 45 for agricultural works. Approved, as 81% of agricultural works here are.

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Council45d

UK44d

80%decided within 8 weeks

81%approved

124decided in the last year

Plota live figures for agricultural works decided by Harrogate in the last twelve months, from validation. Harrogate decision record →