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270 Birstall Road, Birstall, Leicestershire, LE4 4DH

P/24/0175/2Tree works Conservation AreaRefused

Refused on 9 February 2024

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

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

T1 - silver birch - remove large limb overhanging garden back into the stem and reduce th crown by 1.5m to bring the tree down to 30ft in height from the ground G2 - mixed hedge on left side of property - bring down to 7ft and cut the face back hard to tidy it up and get the hedge back under control G3 - mixed hedge along rear boundary - reduce to 7ft and cut inside face back hard to get it back under control G4 - mixed hedge that travels along right boundary at rear of property - reduce to 10ft and cut the face back hard. T5 - ash tree in far left hand corner of rear garden - remove lowest branches. All work wil be to bs 3998 2010 and carried out by professional and qualified tree surgeons.

Received
31 January 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Birstall East and Wanlip
  1. Received31 Jan
  2. Validated2 Feb
  3. Consult.2 Feb
  4. Target13 Mar
  5. Decided9 Feb

Decided in 7 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a tree application at 270 Birstall Road, Birstall, Leicestershire, LE4 4DH. Charnwood has handled 1,054 applications of this type. This one was decided in 9 days, 6 weeks quicker than Charnwood's typical decision time. The site is in the Birstall conservation area, with 3 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 36 applications across Birstall East and Wanlip. We hold 369 applications in total for the LE4 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
LE4 4DH
Application type
Tree works Conservation Area
Development type
Use not defined in application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Birstall

Planning application dates

Date validated
2 February 2024
Consultation expiry
2 February 2024
Consultation start
2 February 2024
Consultation end
2 February 2024
Last date for comments
2 February 2024
Target decision date
13 March 2024
Application expires
13 March 2024
Permission expires
9 February 2027

Planning decision

Statutory period
40 days

Publicity

Site notice start
2 February 2024

Additional information

Documents
8

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Birstall
  • Listed building: Grade II: SchoolOn or next to this site
  • 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 (20)

flood storage areas, 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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© 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: Charnwood

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