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Boston High School for Girls, Spilsby Road, Boston PE21 9PF

B/25/0147Notification to carry out works on treesApproved
Prior approval

Approved on 30 May 2025

Council decision: Favourable Planning decision

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Notification under S211 for works to trees within a conservation area to include: T 8 - horse chestnut - Reduce over traffic lights by 1.5m and clear street light by 1m, remove ivy around base T 9 - lime - Remove epicormic to height of approx 4m, remove large deadwood, clear light to maintain 1m clearance T 10 - group of 7 trees - 6 silver birch and 1 cherry - Remove birch tree, clear ivy on remaining trees, remove deadwood on birch near pedestrian gate T 20 - lime - Pollard to historic points T 22 - lime - Clear utility cable by 1m T 23 - lime - Remove epicormic growth to height of 4m T 24 - mixed group of 8 trees - Remove ivy, crown lift to 2.5m, clear utility cable by 1m and remove deadwood over 5cm in diameter

Received
10 April 2025
  1. Received10 Apr
  2. Validated
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided30 May

Decided in 50 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at Boston High School for Girls, Spilsby Road, Boston PE21 9PF. Boston has handled 134 applications of this type. This one was decided in 50 days, 6 days quicker than Boston's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 886 applications in total for the PE21 postcode area.

99% of trees applications at Boston Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
PE21 9PF
Application type
Notification to carry out works on trees
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Boston Town Area Committee

Planning application dates

Validated
10 April 2025

Additional information

Documents
21

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)
  • Conservation area: Boston, Spilsby RoadPart of the site

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, 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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