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Ryecroft House High Street Belmont Bolton BL7 8AF

10/24/0821Application to undertake works to protected treesApproved

Approved on 1 October 2024

Council decision: GrantDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

T1 - Sycamore. Crown reduce the height and spread of the canopy by up to 4m to alleviate wind sail effects on the canopy as part of an active management plan to help stabilise the tree in adverse weather conditions. Remove any deadwood over 258mm diameter. T2 - Ash. Remove to ground level due to high amounts of Ash Dieback throughout the canopy. T3 - Ash. Remove to ground level due to high amounts of Ash Dieback throughout the canopy.

Received
11 September 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
West Pennine
  1. Received11 Sep
  2. Validated1 Oct
  3. Consult.1 Oct
  4. Target12 Nov
  5. Decided1 Oct

Decided in 0 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a tree application at Ryecroft House High Street Belmont Bolton BL7 8AF. Blackburn with Darwen has handled 236 applications of this type. This one was decided in 20 days, 4 weeks quicker than Blackburn with Darwen's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 78 applications across West Pennine. We hold 1,957 applications in total for the BL7 postcode area.

97% of trees applications at Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 7 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
BL7 8AF
Application type
Application to undertake works to protected trees
Scale / size
Small
Parish
North Turton

Planning application dates

Date validated
1 October 2024
Consultation expiry
1 October 2024
Consultation end
1 October 2024
Last date for comments
11 September 2024
Target decision date
12 November 2024
Application expires
6 November 2024
Permission expires
1 October 2027

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

Documents
6

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Green belt: Blackburn with DarwenPart of the site
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

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

Also checked, none recorded (21)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, 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

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© 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: Blackburn with Darwen

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