Latest planning applications Dringhouses and Woodthorpe Ward

Below are the latest planning applications received by the York Council for the Dringhouses and Woodthorpe ward. Full details can be found by clicking the application reference

Location: 3 Bannisdale York YO24 2YA

Proposal: Replacement roof to garage (Application to extend time period for implementation of permission 10/01813/FUL)

Ref No: 13/03277/FUL

Applicant: Brian Richardson Consultation Expiry Date 4 November 2013 Case Officer: Elizabeth Potter Expected Decision Level DEL
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Location: 27 Acomb Wood Close York YO24 2SN

Proposal: Crown lift to approx. 4m, Crown clean and Crown reduce OAK, (T1), Tree Protected by Tree Preservation Order No CYC81

Ref No: 13/03323/TPO

Applicant: Mrs D Horner Contact Jonathan Slight Consultation Expiry Date 4 November 2013 Case Officer: Esther Priestley Expected Decision Level D
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Representations can be made in favour of, or in objection to, any application via the Planning on line web site. http://planningaccess.york.gov.uk/online-applications/

NB. The Council now no longer routinely consults neighbours by letter when an application is received.

Latest Planning application Dringhouses and Woodthorpe Ward

Below are the latest planning applications received by the York Council for the Dringhouses and Woodthorpe ward.

Full details can be found by clicking the application reference

Location: 57 Middlethorpe Grove York YO24 1LE
Proposal: Two storey side and single storey rear extension
Ref No: 13/03175/FUL
Applicant: Mr And Mrs Fearns Contact Mr Howard Berry Consultation Expiry Date 25 October 2013 Case Officer: Sharon Jackson Expected Decision Level DEL

Representations can be made in favour of, or in objection to, any application via the Planning on line web site. http://planningaccess.york.gov.uk/online-applications/

NB. The Council now no longer routinely consults neighbours by letter when an application is received.

List of Dringhouses and Woodthorpe planning applications decided in September

Location: 2 Alness Drive York YO24 2XZ
Proposal: Erection of single storey extension extending 4.825 metres beyond the rear wall of the original house, with a height to the eaves of 2.5 metres and a total height of 3.575 metres
Ref No: 13/02944/LHE Applicant: D Poole Decision Type:DEL Decision: LHEPER Conditions? N
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Location: 23 Middlethorpe Drive York YO24 1NG
Proposal: Erection of single storey extension extending 4.1 metres beyond the rear wall of the original house, with a height to the eaves of 2.3 metres and a total height of 3.4 metres
Ref No: 13/02888/LHE Applicant: Mr And Mrs Bullock Contact Kate Macneill Contact Tel: kate.macneill@mac-architecture.com Decision Type:DEL Decision: LHEPER Conditions? N
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Location: 69 Hunters Way York YO24 1JL
Proposal: Single storey rear extension with balcony on roof and pitched roof to existing porch and garage
Ref No: 13/02509/FUL Applicant: Ms Susan Dial Contact Mr Chris Allan Contact Tel: ca.archs@yahoo.co.uk Decision Type:DEL Decision: HAPP Conditions? Y
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Location: 1 Allendale York YO24 2SF
Proposal: Single storey side extension
Ref No: 13/02155/FUL Applicant: Mrs Margaret Gosling Contact Mr Keith Wilkinson Decision Type:COMM Decision: HAPP Conditions? Y

Press and Labour Councillor in muddle over planning appeal

Westview Close

Westview Close

Yorkshire Post and York Press readers will today be wondering why a Westfield Labour Councillor was given a platform to sound off about a housing development which he obviously thought was in his ward.

As we reported several weeks ago, a planning Inspector has overturned a Council decision and has allowed a small 8 home development to be built on Westview Close.

Westview Close is actually located in the Rural West ward, adjacent to the Civil Service Sports field.

It is about 1 mile away from the Westfield Ward.

It appears that the media have provoked “local” Westfield ward Councillor Dafydd Williams to condemn the decision amidst a confused diatribe about the need to establish a “Green Belt” boundary.

We have news for him. There is a Green Belt boundary and it is protected by the government.

All that has changed over the last year, is that Labour have proposed taking greenfield sites, like the Civil Service Sports field, out of the Green Belt.

Latest Planning applications Dringhouses and Woodthorpe Ward

Below are the latest planning applications received by the York Council for the Dringhouses and Woodthorpe ward. Full details can be found by clicking the application reference

Reference 13/03175/FUL Alternative Reference PP-02908982

Address 57 Middlethorpe Grove York YO24 1LE

Proposal Two storey side and single storey rear extension

Application Received Tue 24 Sep 2013 Status Pending Consideration

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Reference 13/03176/TCA

Address National Trust Regional Office Goddards 27 Tadcaster Road Dringhouses York YO24 1QG

Proposal Fell Robinia (T2), Crown reduce Black Poplars x 3, and Pollard White Willow (T3), Trees in the Conservation Area

Application Received Tue 24 Sep 2013 Status Pending Consideration
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Reference 13/03180/FUL

Address 4 The Horseshoe York YO24 1LX

Proposal First and second floor rear extension

Application Received Mon 23 Sep 2013 Status Pending Consideration
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Representations can be made in favour of, or in objection to, any application via the Planning on line web site.

NB. The Council now no longer routinely consults neighbours by letter when an application is received.

York Local Plan – Save the green belt campaigners get another boost

The Council are now saying that they hope to have read all the representations made by residents about the draft Local Plan by the end of October.

How long it will be, before meetings start to take place at which residents will have the chance to challenge Labour’s Plan assumptions, is anyone’s guess.

Residents protest against Local Plan

Residents protest against Local Plan

However the Plan’s assumptions about the number of homes that could be built on brownfield sites continue to be eroded.

The latest planning application – for the Brecks Lane site at Strensall – is for 104 homes. That compares to an assumed capacity for the site, listed in the draft Local Plan, of 82.

Last week we learned that the British Sugar site will accommodate 1300 homes. The Local Plan forecast only 998.

In addition, around 20 planning applications for new homes have been submitted to the Council over the last 4 months, for sites where either zero residential units had been assumed in the Local Plan or where the number now planned is over 20% higher than the Local Plan estimate.

These include proposals for The Press office building in Walmgate, the Burnholme Club site and Our Lady’s school on Windsor Garth.

They do not include new “windfall” sites like the Bonding Warehouse, Ashbourne House, the Yearsley Pub not to mention Oliver House where we now understand that negotiations about the buildings future have recommenced (some 18 months after it became empty).

It is now clear that there is sufficient brownfield (previously developed) land to satisfy York’s reasonable housing needs for the foreseeable future.

What is clear now is that Labours Local Plan has already been discredited. They will have to re-write large sections of it.

The sooner that they start the better.

Latest Planning applications

Below are the latest planning applications received by the York Council for the Dringhouses and Woodthorpe ward. Full details can be found by clicking the application reference

Fell Silver Birch (T1), Sycamore (T2), Oak (T5), Hawthorn (T6), Prune Sycamores (T3,T4), Trees protected by Tree Preseration Order No 10

17 Acomb Wood Close York YO24 2SN

Ref. No: 13/03141/TPO | Received: Thu 19 Sep 2013 | Validated: Thu 19 Sep 2013 | Status: Pending Consideration

Prune back from building to give 1m clearance Cedar (T1), Tree in the Conservation Area

Holiday Inn Tadcaster Road Dringhouses York YO24 1HF

Ref. No: 13/03142/TCA | Received: Thu 19 Sep 2013 | Validated: Thu 19 Sep 2013 | Status: Pending Consideration

Crown lift and Crown clean by 20% Oak (T10,T11), Trees protected by Tree Preservation Order No 29

66 Ryecroft Avenue York YO24 2SD

Ref. No: 13/03102/TPO | Received: Tue 17 Sep 2013 | Validated: Tue 17 Sep 2013 | Status: Pending Consideration

Representations can be made in favour of, or in objection to, any application via the Planning on line web site. http://planningaccess.york.gov.uk/online-applications/

NB. The Council now no longer routinely consults neighbours by letter when an application is received.

Oliver House – £30,000 taxpayers bill for property empty for 18 months

It has become clear why the Council’s leadership were so reluctant to answer questions about the future of the former elderly person’s home at Oliver House in Bishophill at the last council meeting.

Oliver House York

A Freedom of Information response has revealed that the building is costing taxpayers nearly £2000 a month to keep empty.

The building has been unused since April 2012.

The only “occupants” are a firm called “ad hoc property management” who – in return for access – offer a “free” security service.

No rent or other income has been received for the property.

Discussions with the York CVS, which might have led to the building being sold to them, started in May 2012. They stalled several months ago.

The value of the prime site has been put at over £1 million with offers having apparently already been made, to the Council, by housing developers.

The Council has spent £30,000 over the last 18 months paying rates and on maintaining the empty property.

There are currently over 4500 people on the waiting list for social accommodation in the City. Many of these require single person accommodation

NB. The Guildhall has also now been empty for 8 months and is costing Council taxpayers around £160,000 a year in maintenance, rates and other costs.

10 new planning applications in Dringhouses and Woodthorpe ward

Below are the latest planning applications received by the York Council for the Dringhouses and Woodthorpe wards. Full details can be found by clicking the application reference

Ref No: 13/02951/FUL

Location: 21 Silverdale Court York YO24 2SL

Proposal: Single storey rear extension and dormer window to rear

Applicant: Richard Brooke Consultation Expiry Date 7 October 2013 Case Officer: Carolyn Howarth Expected Decision Level DEL

Ref No: 13/02964/FUL

Location: 5 Acomb Wood Close York YO24 2SN

Proposal: Two storey side and rear extension and detached double garage to rear

Applicant: Mr Warren Senior Contact Jaron Goulding Consultation Expiry Date 7 October 2013 Case Officer: Elizabeth Potter Expected Decision Level DEL

Ref No: 13/02995/FUL

Location: 69 Orchard Way York YO24 2NY

Proposal: Single storey extension to side

Applicant: Mr Peter Lidgett Contact M T S Architectural Services Consultation Expiry Date 7 October 2013 Case Officer: Elizabeth Potter Expected Decision Level DEL

Ref No: 13/02996/FUL

Location: 10 Aintree Court York YO24 1EW

Proposal: Attached garage to side of existing garage

Applicant: Mr Tony Kennelly Contact Mr Wayne Morris Consultation Expiry Date 7 October 2013 Case Officer: Heather Fairy (Mon – Wed) Expected Decision DEL

Ref No: 13/03001/LHE

Location: 103 Tadcaster Road Dringhouses York YO24 1QG

Proposal: Erection of single storey extension extending 4 metres beyond the rear wall of the original house, with a height to the eaves of 2.5 metres and a total height of 3.8 metres

Applicant: Mr S Tinkler Contact Mr B Farrer Consultation Expiry Date 7 October 2013 Case Officer: Carolyn Howarth Expected Decision Level DEL

Ref No: 13/02994/FUL

Location: 3 The Grove York YO24 1XD

Proposal: Two storey rear extension

Applicant: Mrs Sau-Wing Mak Contact Mr Andy Sykes Consultation Expiry Date 7 October 2013Case Officer: Carolyn Howarth Expected Decision Level DEL

Ref No: 13/03057/FUL

Location: 1 Dringthorpe Road York YO24 1NF

Proposal: Two storey side extension (amended scheme)

Applicant: Mr W Jones Consultation Expiry Date 7 October 2013 Case Officer: Heather Fairy (Mon – Wed) Expected Decision DEL

Ref No: 13/03043/TPO

Location: Tree House 4 Kensington Court York YO24 1LJ

Proposal: Reduce Sycamore by 2m away from property and thin by 20%, Tree protected by Tree Preservation Order No 50

Applicant: Mt John Macer Contact Mr Tom Kitchen Consultation Expiry Date 7 October 2013 Case Officer: Esther Priestley Expected Decision Level

Ref No: 13/03046/TCA

Location: 4 Olivias Court Nelsons Lane York YO24 1HD

Proposal: Re-pollard Lime to 1m above the main fork, Tree in the Conservation Area

Applicant: Dr Frazer Brown Consultation Expiry Date 7 October 2013 Case Officer: Esther Priestley Expected Decision Level DEL

Ref No: 13/03088/TPO

Location: Aldersyde Court Aldersyde York

Proposal: Horse Chestnut (T3,T4,T5) Crown thin by 10% and crown clean, Horse Chestnut (T1) reduce heavy limb over highway, Trees protected by Tree Preservation Order CYC 282

Applicant: Mr Steve Theaker Contact Mr David Gregory Consultation Expiry Date 7 October 2013 Case Officer: Esther Priestley Expected Decision Level DEL

Representations can be made in favour of, or in objection to, any application via the Planning on line web site. http://planningaccess.york.gov.uk/online-applications/

NB. The Council now no longer routinely consults neighbours by letter when an application is received.

British Sugar residential development plans take a step forward – Methane risk revealed

The planned residential development on the former British Sugar site off Plantation Drive has taken a step forward.

click for full report

click for full report

The owners have submitted a scoping document which will lead to the production of an environmental impact assessment which is an essential precursor to an outline planning application.

The latter is now expected to be lodged in early 2014.

The new development is expected to be a predominately residential led scheme, of up to 1300 homes comprising family housing at a medium density together with

• A retail centre comprising Class Al/A2/A3/A4/A5;

• A multi-use community hub (with potential for uses such as a health centre, crèche, public hall, primary school, changing facilities associated with any intensive sports uses on the site);

• Provision of open space/green infrastructure;

• Access via a new link road through Former Manor School site, Plantation Drive and Millfield Lane; and

• Demolition of the Former Manor School buildings as necessary.

The report warns of potentially harmful levels of methane and carbon dioxide on the site.

However no signs of protected wildlife species, such as Great Crested Newts, have been discovered. A “bee bank” is under threat.

The report also describes how transportation, landscape, noise, air quality and other impacts will be assessed.