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The Old Vicorage, Mount Pleasant, Ripley, Derbyshire, DE5 3DX

2025/4321/TPOTree Preservation Order ApplicationApproved

Approved on 21 October 2025

Council decision: TPO: Consent Granted

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

T1 - Pine: Reduce lower lateral limbs extending toward the property to mitigate lean and one-sided canopy development. T2 - Laburnum: Dead tree - fell and remove. T3 - Lime: Remove epicormic growth from the main stem and deadwood throughout the crown. T4 - Beech: Crown thin by 10-20% of secondary branches, Removing crossing, rubbing branches and deadwood. T5 - Lime: Remove epicormic groMh from the main stem and deadwood. T6 - Horse Chestnut: Previously excessively reduced,lvlonolith under main union to encourage regeneration and habitat retention. T7 - Sycamore: Crown raise to 4-5m from ground level. T8 - Beech: Crown raise to 4-5m from ground level. T9 - Dead Sycamore: Assess for habitat value.Consider removal if no ecological interest is present. T10 - Beech (Centre Rear Garden): Unidentified Fungal Fruiting Body (FFB) present significance of possible decay in the main stem additional, investigation required via climbing inspection to identify and evaluate the structural condition.Climbing inspection essential to assess condition. T11 - Lime: Remove epicormic growth and ivy from main stem,Crown raise to 4-5m. T12 - Yew: Clear epicormic growth from base up to 2-3m. T13-T14 - Pine & Ash: Remove ivy from main stems. Gateway to Paddock (G1) lncludes small Laburnum, Hoily, and self-set trees.Remove small self-set trees and reduce Holly height to form a more, shrub-!ike structure. , Paddock Boundary West Side - Selective removal of small self-set trees, primarily Ash,

Received
30 September 2025
Ward
Horsley
  1. Received30 Sep
  2. Validated30 Sep
  3. Consult.21 Oct
  4. Target
  5. Decided21 Oct

Decided in 21 days (council typically 28)

About this application

This is a tree application at The Old Vicorage, Mount Pleasant, Ripley, Derbyshire, DE5 3DX. Derbyshire has handled 103 applications of this type. This one was decided in 21 days, 7 days quicker than Derbyshire's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 1,043 applications in total for the DE5 postcode area.

93% of trees applications at Derbyshire County Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 4 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
DE5 3DX
Application type
Tree Preservation Order Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Ripley
District
Amber Valley

Planning application dates

Date validated
30 September 2025
Consultation expiry
21 October 2025
Consultation end
21 October 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
The Old Vicorage, Mount Pleasant, Ripley, Derbyshire, DE5 3DX

Publicity

Site notice end
21 October 2025

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Possibly incomplete for this council: conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers.

Also checked, none recorded (20)

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 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.

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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