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Lightwood Nature Reserve, Lightwood Road, Buxton, SK17 7AA

2025/4365/TPOTree Preservation Order ApplicationApproved

Approved on 5 December 2025

Council decision: TPO: Consent Granted

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

T1 Ash Near Open Culvert - Fell to safe height and create a monolith, T2 Beech Weighted over the entrance road and parking area - weight reduction through pollarding, T3 Beech Near kissing gate - crown lift and reduce weight on over extended limbs. Remove dead wood as over footpath, ,

Received
28 October 2025
Ward
Buxton West
  1. Received28 Oct
  2. Validated17 Nov
  3. Consult.5 Dec
  4. Target
  5. Decided5 Dec

Decided in 18 days (council typically 28)

About this application

This is a tree application at LIGHTWOOD NATURE RESERVE, LIGHTWOOD ROAD, BUXTON, SK17 7AA. Derbyshire has handled 103 applications of this type. This one was decided in 38 days, 10 days longer than Derbyshire's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 3 applications across Buxton West. We hold 716 applications in total for the SK17 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
SK17 7AA
Application type
Tree Preservation Order Application
Scale / size
Small
District
High Peak

Planning application dates

Date validated
17 November 2025
Consultation expiry
5 December 2025
Consultation end
5 December 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
DERBYSHIRE WILDLIFE TRUST, DERBYSHIRE WILDLIFE TRUST, SANDYHILL PARK, PORTER LANE, MIDDLETON BY WIRKSWORTH

Publicity

Site notice end
5 December 2025

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Nutrient neutrality catchment: Peak District Dales SACApplies to new homes and overnight accommodation
  • 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 (19)

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, 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.

Source: Derbyshire

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