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Hillside Chorley Old Road Bolton BL6 6PS

20533/25Works to a tree with a TPOApproved

Approved on 25 July 2025

Council decision: Approve subject to conditionsDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

PRUNING OF 4 NO. SYCAMORE, 2 NO. HORNBEAM AND 1 NO. HOLLY.

Received
18 June 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Horwich North
Agent
S J Woolstencroft Tree services
  1. Received18 Jun
  2. Validated2 Jul
  3. Consult.23 Jul
  4. Target27 Aug
  5. Decided25 Jul

Decided in 23 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at Hillside Chorley Old Road Bolton BL6 6PS. Bolton has handled 651 applications of this type. This one was decided in 37 days, 3 weeks quicker than Bolton's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 95 applications across Horwich North. We hold 398 applications in total for the BL6 postcode area.

88% of trees applications at Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
BL6 6PS
Application type
Works to a tree with a TPO
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
2 July 2025
Consultation expiry
23 July 2025
Consultation start
2 July 2025
Consultation end
23 July 2025
Last date for comments
23 July 2025
Target decision date
27 August 2025
Permission expires
25 July 2030

Applicant and agent

Agent
S J Woolstencroft Tree services
Agent address
Wards End Farm Lately Common Warrington Cheshire WA3 5NZ United Kingdom

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14108961
Documents
3
Constraints
9

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • 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 (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.

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