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5 Spicer Lane, Bournemouth, BH11 9QR

TP/20/00904/XTree work to tree/s subject to a TPOApproved

Approved on 10 March 2021

Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

T1 - Oak - Crown raise over the car port by removing the 2 lowest laterals extending S/W. Reduce the remaining laterals that extend over the car port and the driveway of number 3 Spicer Lane by up to 2 metres to suitable growth points. Prune to clear the overhead BT cable by 0.5m. Remove major deadwood >20mm diameter from throughout the crown. T2 - Oak - Reduce the laterals that extend S/W towards the property of number 5, over the car port and the driveway by up to 2 metres, to suitable growth points. Prune to clear the overhead BT cable by 0.5 metres. Remove major deadwood >20mm diameter from throughout the crown. T3 - Oak - Reduce the laterals extending over the driveways of number 5 and 7 Spicer Lane by up 2 metres to suitable growth points. Remove major deadwood >20mm diameter from throughout the crown. The proposed works are part of the ongoing arboricultural management at this property ensuring that the trees have a good/safe clearance to all above ground structures including properties, driveways and overhead service wires. TPO 126/1982

Received
20 October 2020
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Bearwood & Merley
  1. Received20 Oct
  2. Validated20 Oct
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided10 Mar

Decided in 141 days (council typically 63)

About this application

This is a tree application at 5 Spicer Lane, Bournemouth, BH11 9QR. BCP has handled 4,888 applications of this type. This one was decided in 141 days, 11 weeks longer than BCP's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 137 applications across Bearwood & Merley. We hold 665 applications in total for the BH11 postcode area.

94% of trees applications at Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 9 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
BH11 9QR
Application type
Tree work to tree/s subject to a TPO
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
20 October 2020

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Exbury Estate Office Summer Lane EXBURY SO45 1AZ

Additional information

Documents
6

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions. Ask the council if these matter.

Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.

Also checked, none recorded (22)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, Heritage at Risk entries, nutrient neutrality catchments, national parks, National Landscapes, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves, heritage coasts and brownfield registers.

A guide only, from official open data; it is not a planning search. Flood zones cover rivers and sea, not surface water.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The Historic England GIS Data contained in this material was obtained on 2026-11-03. The most publicly available up to date Historic England GIS Data can be obtained from HistoricEngland.org.uk.

© Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: BCP

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