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St Probus And St Graces Church The Square Probus Truro Cornwall TR2 4JW

PA25/02032Trees in a Conservation AreaApproved

Approved on 25 April 2025

Council decision: Decided not to make a TPO (TCA apps)Delegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Works to trees in a conservation area (CA), works include reduce a mixture of 38 sycamore and holly. The hedge along the church boundary with Wagg Lane to the north side has become neglected since it was last pruned in 2016.

Received
18 March 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
1
Ward
Probus And St Erme
  1. Received18 Mar
  2. Validated18 Mar
  3. Consult.
  4. Target29 Apr
  5. Decided25 Apr

Decided in 38 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a tree application at St Probus And St Graces Church The Square Probus Truro Cornwall TR2 4JW. Cornwall has handled 3,715 applications of this type. This one was decided in 38 days, 11 days quicker than Cornwall's typical decision time. The site is in the Probus conservation area, with 8 listed buildings nearby. There have been 5 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 46 applications across Probus And St Erme. We hold 1,437 applications in total for the TR2 postcode area.

97% of trees applications at Cornwall Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 7 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
TR2 4JW
Application type
Trees in a Conservation Area
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Probus

Planning application dates

Date validated
18 March 2025
Target decision date
29 April 2025

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13852682
Documents
6
Constraints
14

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

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 (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

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.

Planning history at this site

5 other applications at this property, newest first.

  1. 2025
    18 Aug

    Works to Tree(s) within a Tree Conservation Area (TCA) - Holm Oak - Pollard.

    ApprovedTrees in a Conservation AreaPA25/05479
  2. 2025
    4 Mar

    Works to a Tree within a Conservation Area (TCA) - T1 - Holm Oak - 2.5-3m Crown Lift

    ApprovedTrees in a Conservation AreaPA25/01585
  3. 2024
    26 Mar

    Works to Tree(s) within a Conservation Area (TCA) - Sycamore hedge - Prune to a height of about 1.80 metres.

    ApprovedTrees in a Conservation AreaPA24/01535
  4. 2021
    2 Mar

    Listed Building Consent to affix new signage to streetlight M234 located outside Probus Church.

    ApprovedListed building consentPA21/01186
  5. 2018
    12 Nov

    Works to trees in a Conservation Area, namely on the holm oak tree T1, remove selected branches for road…

    ApprovedTrees in a Conservation AreaPA18/10729

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