Moorhen Farm, West Scrafton (GR:407887,484024) Data via plota.co.uk

R/85/54 - Full Planning Awaiting Legal Agreement

Proposal

Full planning permission for conversion of barn to dwelling with associated parking and domestic curtilage, and for the installation of a package sewage treatment plant to serve the barn Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
10 Jul 2025
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Validated
18 Jul 2025
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Consultation
29 Jul 2025
Decision
Target date was 8 Sept 2025

Under consideration

No decision has been issued yet. Plota predicted a decision around 28 Oct 2026; it is now day 467.

Documents

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Site constraints 9

Article 4 directionCoal mining legacy area
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.
Agricultural land, grade 3b
Not best and most versatile land (grades 1, 2 and 3a). 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 5. 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 2
Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.
Radon affected area, class 5
An estimated 10 to 30% of homes reach the radon action level. Indicative for the 1 km square, which takes the highest class found in it; a radon test gives the answer for a building.
From the British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency indicative atlas. Under building regulations, as the BRE guide BR 211 (2023) sets out, new buildings and extensions need basic radon protection from class 3 in England and Wales and from class 2 in Scotland, and full protection from class 5. The class at the site itself, from the detailed BGS map, decides which.
UKHSA radon ↗
11 listed buildings within 150 m of the postcode pin
Nearest: THE OLD INN, Grade II, about 34 m from the postcode pin · 11 Grade II
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.
Show all 11 with distances
Historic England ↗
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
Coalfield, development low risk area; Open access land about 2 m away: Access Land - Combined Open Country, Registered Common Land and Section 16 Dedicated Land. MoD Byelaw, Section 28 Exclusions, Racecourses and Aerodromes and ECP Margin have been removed..
Not affected
Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 17 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
Received
10 Jul 2025
Validated
18 Jul 2025
Parish
West Scrafton
Case officer
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Target decision
8 Sept 2025
Decision level
Delegated
Applicant
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Agent
AFR Design

Decision outlook

Day 467, past the statutory target. 67% of full applications in Yorkshire Dales are decided within thirteen weeks; extensions of time are common, and the council need not decide on the day. Last seen undecided on 23 Oct 2026.

Day 467411 days past the 56-day target
49%decided within 8 weeks
86%approved
111decided in the last year

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

Consultation & key dates

Alt. reference
14167294
Site or press notice
29 Jul 2025
Statutory expiry
13 Jan 2026