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Old Gardeners Cottage 1760 Melton Road Rearsby Leicestershire LE7 4YS

P/23/0484/2Tree works Conservation AreaRefused

Refused on 20 April 2023

Council decision: DO NOT MAKE A TREE PRESERVATION ORDERDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Spruce- prune to selectively reduce overextended branches back to suitable lateral shoot. Ash tree - Prune to selectively reduce over extended branches to suitable sublateral shoot. pear tree - prune to remove dead and diseased wood.

Received
14 March 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Wreake Villages
  1. Received14 Mar
  2. Validated24 Mar
  3. Consult.14 Mar
  4. Target25 Apr
  5. Decided20 Apr

Decided in 27 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a tree application at Old Gardeners Cottage 1760 Melton Road Rearsby Leicestershire LE7 4YS. Charnwood has handled 1,054 applications of this type. This one was decided in 37 days, 12 days quicker than Charnwood's typical decision time. The site is in the Rearsby conservation area, with 5 listed buildings nearby. There have been 3 other applications at this address. We hold 2,736 applications in total for the LE7 postcode area.

24% of trees applications at Charnwood Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 7 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
LE7 4YS
Application type
Tree works Conservation Area
Development type
Use not defined in application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Rearsby

Planning application dates

Date validated
24 March 2023
Consultation expiry
14 March 2023
Consultation end
14 March 2023
Last date for comments
14 March 2023
Target decision date
25 April 2023
Application expires
25 April 2023
Permission expires
20 April 2026

Planning decision

Statutory period
32 days

Additional information

Documents
4

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Rearsby
  • 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 (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

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© 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.

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Planning history at this site

5 other applications at this property, newest first.

  1. 2026
    7 Oct

    TPO Related Works: Hornbeam Tree as located in suporting Tree Location Plan- Reduce Crown by up to 25%, prune…

    ApprovedTPO works relatedP/26/1765/2
  2. 2026
    7 Oct

    Tree Works in a Conservation Area : T1 (Spruce) Prune to selectively reduce over extended branches back to…

    ApprovedTree works Conservation AreaP/26/1764/2
  3. 2019
    7 Jun

    Crown lifting to 3m; tipping back up to 1.5m of lateral growth

    RefusedTree works Conservation AreaP/19/1245/2
  4. 2015
    16 Jun

    Raising and thinning of crown of 1 Hornbeam tree (Tree Preservation Order).

    ApprovedTPO works relatedP/15/1225/2
  5. 2015
    16 Jun

    Raising and thinning of crown of 1 Spruce tree and 1 Ash tree and prune 1 Pear tree (Conservation Area…

    RefusedTree works Conservation AreaP/15/1224/2

Source: Charnwood

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