Vale House Vale Avenue Bolton BL6 5RF
Approved on 20 January 2026
Council decision: Approve subject to conditionsDelegated (officer decision)3 conditions
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Proposal
PRUNING OF 1 NO. CHERRY TREE, 1NO. SYCAMORE
- Received
- 12 November 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Ward
- Horwich South & Blackrod
- Agent
- Ground Control Ltd - 661960
- ReceivedReceived12 Nov
- ValidatedValidated12 Nov
- Consult.Consultation3 Dec
- TargetTarget Date7 Jan
- DecidedDecided20 Jan
Decided in 69 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a tree application at Vale House Vale Avenue Bolton BL6 5RF. Bolton has handled 651 applications of this type. This one was decided in 69 days, 13 days longer than Bolton's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 85 applications across Horwich South & Blackrod. 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 5RF
- Application type
- Works to a tree with a TPO
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Horwich Town Council
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 12 November 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 3 December 2025
- Consultation start
- 12 November 2025
- Consultation end
- 3 December 2025
- Last date for comments
- 3 December 2025
- Target decision date
- 7 January 2026
- Permission expires
- 20 January 2031
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Ground Control Ltd - 661960
- Agent address
- Kingfisher House Radford Way Billericay CM12 0EQ
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-14483926
- Documents
- 4
- Constraints
- 9
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Brownfield land register: Vale House, Vale Avenue, Horwich, Bolton, BL6 5RFRegister site at or near this address
- 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, 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 and heritage coasts.
A guide only, from official open data; it is not a planning search. Flood zones cover rivers and sea, not surface water.
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© Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.
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