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NYM/2025/0721 - Demolition Prior Notification - Prior Approval Required Approved

Proposal

prior approval for demolition of 3 buildings, hardstanding and structures within the site boundary under Part 11 Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
12 Nov 2025
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Approved
22 Dec 2025

Approved on 22 Dec 2025 · Delegated · Last checked 8 Oct 2026

Planning committee

Decided by North York Moors Planning Committee on 27 Nov 2025.

Approved

No officer report was published for this decision; this summary is from the committee minutes.

  • Prior approval was sought for demolition of three buildings, hardstanding and structures within the site boundary.
  • The application was approved on 22 December 2025.

Source: Plota analysis of North York Moors's committee minutes, North York Moors Planning Committee minutes, 27 November 2025 .

Documents 1

Statements & assessments 1

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Site constraints 6

North York Moors 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.
Priority habitat: Lowland meadows
A habitat of principal importance. It shapes the ecology work and the biodiversity net gain a scheme has to show.
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: Lowland meadows
Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.
Special protection area 257 m away: North York Moors
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.
Also on the record
SSSI 257 m away: Biller Howe Dale SSSI.
Not affected
Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No listed building at the site

Checked on 8 October 2026. Historic England, the Environment Agency, Natural England 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
North York Moors
Application type
Demolition Prior Notification - Prior Approval Required
Received
12 Nov 2025
Validated
12 Nov 2025
Ward
Lockwood Ward
Parish
Lockwood
Case officer
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Decision
Prior Approval - Approved with Conditions
Decision date
22 Dec 2025
Decision level
Delegated
Applicant
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Agent
SW architecture

How this decision compares

Decided in 40 days from validation, 9 days faster than North York Moors's median of 49 for prior approvals. Approved, as 97% of prior approvals here are.

79%decided within 8 weeks
97%approved
48decided in the last year

Plota live figures for prior approvals decided by North York Moors in the last twelve months, from validation. North York Moors decision record →

Consultation & key dates

Alt. reference
Portal Ref = 14472828
Comments by
22 Dec 2025
Statutory expiry
7 Jan 2026
North York Moors
Planning Authority Score
8.2/10
Excellent
#21 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
Householder decisions

North York Moors is faster than most councils at deciding householder applications, ranking #85 out of 296. Only 21% of applications have the time limit extended, well below the 41% national average - the council usually decides on time. Householder applications are slightly more likely to be approved here (96%) than the national average (90%).

Faster than most councils
for householder decisions
These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance
North York Moors decision statistics
Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026
96%
Overall approval rate
Above avg (87%) #13 of 296
96%
Householder approved
Above avg (90%) #57 of 296
74%
Decided in 8 weeks
Above avg (63%) #85 of 296
21%
Extended time limit
Below avg (41%) #20 of 296
85%
Minor dwellings approved
20 decided (1-9 homes)
93%
Change of use approved
61 decided
427
Total decisions
19 refused in the year to March 2026
Source: MHCLG planning statistics · See full council rankings