Understanding planning · 13 min read
Planning application documents: what to read first
Understand planning application documents, officer reports and decision notices. Use a reading checklist, document table and worked example to inspect a case.
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Explore collected planning applications and decisions for North Yorkshire Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
714 approved · 97 refused · 22 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 25 Apr 2025 to 23 Sept 2026. Most recent record check: 28 Sept 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Data downloaded 14 Sept 2026. Display boundaries are simplified and indicative. Map record counts are not a complete count of designations or directions.
Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
47 Borrage Lane Ripon North Yorkshire HG4 2PZ
Received 13 Jul 202638 Farfield Avenue Knaresborough North Yorkshire HG5 8HB
Received 13 Jul 2026Workshop And Depot Bellwood House Minskip Road Boroughbridge York North Yorkshire YO51 9HY
Received 14 Jul 2026Victoria Shopping Centre Station Parade Harrogate North Yorkshire HG1 1AE
Received 14 Jul 2026Bay Tree House 62B Yew Tree Lane Harrogate North Yorkshire HG2 9JS
Received 14 Jul 2026Hardistys Farm Denton Road Denton North Yorkshire LS29 0HT
Received 13 Jul 2026Grange Farm Granary Chapel Lane To Whitegates Lane Marton Le Moor North Yorkshire HG4 5AT
Received 14 Jul 2026Woodfield Community Primary School And Nursery Woodfield Road Harrogate North Yorkshire HG1 4HZ
Received 14 Jul 20267 Cornelian Close Scarborough North Yorkshire YO11 3AH
Received 14 Jul 2026Vicarage 78 Station Road Tadcaster North Yorkshire LS24 9JR
Received 14 Jul 20265 Carters Lane Ilkley Bradford LS29 0DQ
Received 14 Jul 2026Flat 2 25-26 Esplanade Scarborough North Yorkshire YO11 2AQ
Received 14 Jul 2026Byefield Lodge Wistow Road Selby North Yorkshire YO8 3LZ
Received 14 Jul 2026Sub Station Rawfield Lane Fairburn North Yorkshire
Received 14 Jul 202634 Greengate Lane Knaresborough North Yorkshire HG5 9EL
Received 15 Jul 202640 Sandhill Drive Harrogate North Yorkshire HG1 4JR
Received 15 Jul 202617 Scriven Road Knaresborough North Yorkshire HG5 9EQ
Received 15 Jul 20266 Market Place Knaresborough North Yorkshire HG5 8AG
Received 15 Jul 2026Flat 1 Mostyn Mere Flats 4 Westbourne Road Scarborough North Yorkshire YO11 2SP
Received 15 Jul 202634 Stone Quarry Road Burniston Scarborough North Yorkshire YO13 0DF
Received 15 Jul 2026Westfield House Cottage Matthew Lane Low Bradley North Yorkshire BD20 9DF
Received 15 Jul 2026Old Hall Farmhouse 4 Old Hall Fold West Street Gargrave North Yorkshire BD23 3RL
Received 15 Jul 2026Sedgemoor House Main Street Low Bradley North Yorkshire BD20 9DG
Received 15 Jul 2026Broughton Bridge Farm Broughton Bridge Farm Track Stokesley North Yorkshire TS9 5JQ
Received 15 Jul 2026Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
View all applicationsStart with the address or application reference. Open a record to read the proposal, dates and available documents, then check the official register for the latest plans and consultation details. If nothing appears, check coverage before treating the result as a complete planning history.
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These figures describe applications collected by PlanningTrack for North Yorkshire Council, across all dates currently available. They are a partial dataset, rather than an authority-wide performance measure. The date range does not establish continuous historical coverage.
The approval percentage is approved records divided by approved plus refused records. Pending, withdrawn and unknown outcomes are excluded. No percentage is shown until there is an approved or refused record.
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