Hopewell House Farm Hay-a-park Lane To Hopewell House Hay-a-park North Yorkshire HG5 0SN Data via plota.co.uk

Registered 26/05766/FUL

Council

Harrogate

Date received

14 Sept 2026

Date validated

7 Oct 2026

Postcode

HG5 0SN

Description

Change of use of Agricultural land to dog training area and parking. Erection of fencing. Data via plota.co.uk

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Last checked 27 Oct 2026, 06:31

Decision outlook

Plota predicts a decision around 1 Dec 2026, from Harrogate's recent changes of use.

Day 21 of the 56-day target. Harrogate usually decides changes of use by day 55.

prediction

Day 2135 days to the 56-day target

64%decided within 8 weeks

89%approved

104decided in the last year

Plota live figures for changes of use decided by Harrogate in the last twelve months, from validation. Harrogate decision record →

Site constraints 3

Agricultural land, grade 3a

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 2. 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.

Public bridleway about 22 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.

Also on the record

Radon affected area, class 2.

Not affected

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

Checked on 27 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 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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