Thornton Moor Farm Fountains Road Ripley North Yorkshire HG3 3JL Data via plota.co.uk

26/05607/PNA - Prior Notification Agriculture Approved

Proposal

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Application progress

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Received

8 Sept 2026

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Approved

2 Oct 2026

Approved on 2 Oct 2026 · Chief Planner · Last checked 3 Oct 2026

Documents 5

Site constraints 3

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 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 Expansion Zone

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

Also on the record

Radon affected area, class 4.

Not affected

Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No listed building at the site

Checked on 6 October 2026. 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.

Sales history 1

Last sold for £22,500 in June 2022. Other property, freehold.

1 June 2022£22,500Recorded as a transfer outside a standard sale

Sale prices from HM Land Registry's price paid record, matched to this application by its address.

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Important details

Council: Harrogate
Application type: Prior Notification Agriculture
Postcode: HG3 3JL
Received: 8 Sept 2026
Validated: 8 Sept 2026
Ward: Masham & Fountains
Parish: Bishop Thornton, Shaw Mills and Warsill
Case officer: Show
Target decision: 3 Nov 2026
Decision: Prior approval not required
Decision date: 2 Oct 2026
Decision level: Chief Planner
Applicant: Show
Agent: Hardcastle Rural Surveyors Ltd

How this decision compares

Decided in 24 days from validation, 13 days faster than Harrogate's median of 37 for prior approvals. Approved, as 84% of prior approvals here are.

This one24d

Council37d

UK33d

91%decided within 8 weeks

84%approved

131decided in the last year

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