Longdown House, 4 Sunnydale Road, Swanage, BH19 2JA
Proposal
(A) Holm oak - trim by up to 1m where required to maintain symmetry; (B) Lime (located in neighbouring garden) - raise crown & reduce secondary branches as shown in photo A; (C) Holm oak (located in neighbouring garden) - cut back high branches (marked in photos B & C) by approximately 1.5 - 2m which are becoming intertwined with branches of other trees; (D) Lime - remove selected limbs overhanging roof of house as discussed at site meeting of 11 March 2014 & remove small low shoots as shown in photo D; (E) Perry pear - raise crown to 2.5m by cutting lower short branches back to main stem; (F) Horse chestnut - prune back 1 overextended branch growing to north east so that it is in line with the rest of the crown County of Dorset (Swanage No.3) TPO 1965 (Ref.120)
- Received
- 22 January 2014
- Decided
- 18 March 2014 · Tree Works - TPO - Consent
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Dorset Council
- ReceivedSubmitted22 Jan
- ValidatedValidated22 Jan
- Consult.Consultation
- TargetTarget Date
- DecidedDecided18 Mar
Decided in 55 days (council typically 42)
This is a tree application at Longdown House, 4 Sunnydale Road, Swanage, BH19 2JA. Dorset has handled 5,897 applications of this type and approves nearly all of them, typically deciding them in 28 days. This one was decided in 55 days, 4 weeks longer than Dorset's median. There has been 1 other application at this address. We hold 1,853 applications in total for the BH19 postcode area.
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- National Landscape (AONB): Dorset
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
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