Bells Low Whita Farm, Low Lane, Low Whita, Low Row, Richmond, DL11 6NT Data via plota.co.uk

R/03/95E/LB/DIS1 - Approval of details reserved by condition Decided

Proposal

Approval of details reserved by condition 3A (Written Scheme of Investigation - WSI) & 4 (fossil limestone fireplace removal) of Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 2 Sept 2026, 19:00

Application progress

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Received

17 Jun 2026

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Validated

18 Jun 2026

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Disharged in Part

17 Aug 2026

Disharged in Part on 17 Aug 2026 · Delegated · Last checked 2 Sept 2026

Documents

View the documents on the council's website ↗

Associated applications 3

Part of

Listed buildingApproved31 Jul 2025council archive

Conditions 3 decided (outcome not recorded) · 4 varied
- ConditionsApproval of details reserved by condition 3A (Written Scheme of Investigation - WSI) & 4…This application18 Jun 2026R/03/95E/LB/DIS1
- Show 1 more · 1 approved
  - VariationSection 19 application to remove Condition 4 (retention of existing fossil limestone fireplace…19 Aug 2026R/03/95J/LB

Site constraints 18

Village GreenArticle 4 directionGrade II* listedScheduled Ancient MonumentCoal mining legacy areaSurface water flood risk

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.

Swaledale and Arkengarthdale barns and walls conservation area

Demolition needs planning permission and permitted development is restricted.

The council must give weight to preserving or enhancing the area's character and appearance. Not every council has published its boundaries as open data.

Council document ↗

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.

Heritage at risk: Swaledale and Arkengarthdale barns and walls

On the register of historic places assessed as at risk.

A designated building, monument, park or conservation area assessed as at risk from neglect, decay or development. Proposals that secure its future are looked on favourably.

Historic England ↗

Agricultural land, grade 4

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 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 1

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

Radon affected area, class 6

An estimated 30% or more 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 ↗

Village GreenCouncil 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 ↗

Grade II* listed: Low Whita (Bells) Farm (east)Council record

1 more on the council's record: Low Whita (Bells) Farm (west) (Grade II*).

Council site ↗

Scheduled Ancient MonumentCouncil record

Recorded by the council for this site.

Council site ↗

Coal mining legacy areaCouncil record

Recorded by the council for this site.

Council site ↗

Surface water flood riskCouncil record

Recorded by the council for this site.

Council site ↗

Also on the record

Scheduled monument about 174 m away: How Hill, Low Whita late prehistoric defended settlement site; 2 listed buildings within 150 m of the postcode pin; Special protection area about 467 m away: North Pennine Moors; Coalfield, development low risk area; SSSI about 467 m away: Cliff Force Cave SSSI.

Not affected

Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt

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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