Lower Heights Farm, Threshfield, Skipton, BD23 5NU Data via plota.co.uk

C/71/287C - Full Planning Approved
Agricultural

Proposal

Full Planning Application for erection of an agricultural building (retrospective) Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
27 Feb 2026
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Validated
2 Mar 2026
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Consultation
4 Mar 2026
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Approved
24 Apr 2026

Approved on 24 Apr 2026 · Delegated · Last checked 11 Jul 2026

Documents

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Site constraints 12

S106 Legal Agreement/Occupancy RestrictionArticle 4 directionCoal mining legacy area
1 listed building within 150 m of the postcode pin
Nearest: Lane House, Grade II, about 1 m from the postcode pin
The site itself is not listed. Listed building consent is needed for work that affects the special interest of a listed building, inside or out, on top of planning permission. Setting can be a consideration for buildings nearby; there is no fixed radius.
Historic England ↗
Yorkshire Dales National Park
The park authority decides applications here. Great weight to conserving the landscape; major development restricted.
Landscape, scenic beauty and wildlife carry great weight, and major development is only allowed in exceptional circumstances.
Public footpath about 11 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), which most planning maps still show, had this area as grade 4. The predicted grade is Defra's current estimate; only a site survey settles it.
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.
Special area of conservation about 263 m away: Craven Limestone Complex
Work nearby can need a habitats assessment.
Harm to a protected site is only accepted where there is no alternative and an overriding public interest.
S106 Legal Agreement/Occupancy RestrictionCouncil record
Recorded by the council for this site.
Council site ↗
Article 4 directionCouncil record
Some permitted development rights are withdrawn. The direction is on the council's register but not published as open data.
Council site ↗
Coal mining legacy areaCouncil record
Recorded by the council for this site.
Council site ↗
Also on the record
SSSI about 263 m away: Malham-Arncliffe ( Cool Pasture ) SSSI; Radon affected area, class 4; Coalfield, development low risk area.
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
Yorkshire Dales
Application type
Full Planning
Postcode
BD23 5NU
Received
27 Feb 2026
Validated
2 Mar 2026
Parish
Threshfield
Case officer
Show
Target decision
24 Apr 2026
Decision
Approved - Conditional
Decision date
24 Apr 2026
Decision level
Delegated
Applicant
Show
Agent
WBW Surveyors Limited

How this decision compares

Decided in 53 days from validation, 18 days faster than Yorkshire Dales's median of 71 for agricultural works. Approved, as 88% of agricultural works here are.

42%decided within 8 weeks
88%approved
36decided in the last year

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

Consultation & key dates

Alt. reference
14716769
Site or press notice
4 Mar 2026
Statutory expiry
23 Mar 2026

Historical activity at this location

1 previous application on record - archival context, not part of the live application.

This property

Previous applications at this address

2023 Approved
Application to determine if prior approval is required under Schedule 2, Part 6 of the To…
C/71/287B/GPDO