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Puncknowle Manor, Church Street, Puncknowle, Dorchester, DT2 9BX

WD/D/20/001238Tree Works- Conservation AreaApproved

Approved on 8 July 2020

Council decision: No ObjectionDelegated (officer decision)

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Proposal

T1 Horse Chestnut - Reduce height by up to 3m, with a lateral reduction all around the canopy between 1 and 3m - to balance crown T2 Horse Chestnut - Reduce height by 4m, with up to 2m off lateral branches all around canopy - to reduce end weight loading T3 Horse Chestnut - Reduce height by 2m, reduce laterals over road by up to 3m and all other laterals by up to 1.5m T4 Horse Chestnut - Reduce height by 3m, reduce laterals over road by up to 2.5m. Reduce south-facing laterals by 1.5 m and reduce x 2 NW-facing stems by up to 4m - to balance crown T5 Holm Oak. - Reduce NW-facing secondary branch over oil storage building by up to 4m to reduce end-weight loading and risk of subsequent failure. Reduce main stems on W and NW-facing side by 5-6m, to reduce risk of failure. Reduce lower SW-facing stem back to previous pruning point. Reduce stems facing road by up to 4m (1-2 metres below previous pollard points) T6 Holm Oak - Reduce height by up to 3m and reduce extended lateral branches by up to 2m around the canopy, in all directions T7 Beech - Fell - dead T8 Acer - Fell - in decline Group 1 - 2 x Sycamore & 1 x Ash - Fell - poor structure T9 Purple Beech - Reduce N-facing laterals by 3m and reduce E-facing laterals by up to 1.5m

Submitted
1 June 2020
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Chesil Bank Ward (old number)
  1. Received1 Jun
  2. Validated1 Jun
  3. Consult.29 Jun
  4. Target
  5. Decided8 Jul

Decided in 37 days (council typically 42)

About this application

This is a tree application at PUNCKNOWLE MANOR, CHURCH STREET, PUNCKNOWLE, DORCHESTER, DT2 9BX. Dorset has handled 5,931 applications of this type. This one was decided in 37 days, 5 days quicker than Dorset's typical decision time. The site is in the Puncknowle conservation area, with 17 listed buildings nearby. There have been 7 other applications at this address. We hold 2,420 applications in total for the DT2 postcode area.

95% of trees applications at Dorset Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 6 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
DT2 9BX
Application type
Tree Works- Conservation Area
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Puncknowle
District
West Dorset

Planning application dates

Date validated
1 June 2020
Consultation expiry
29 June 2020
Consultation end
29 June 2020

Additional information

Documents
3

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

Not published by this council, so not checked: tree preservation orders. Ask the council if these matter.

Also checked, none recorded (20)

flood storage areas, Article 4 directions, 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, 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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© 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.

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Associated applications

  1. 2020
    4 Jun

    T1 Ash - Fell - signs of ash die back

    ApprovedTree Works- Conservation AreaFiled alongsideWD/D/20/001285
  2. 2020
    1 Jun

    T1 Horse Chestnut - Reduce height by up to 3m, with a lateral reduction all around the canopy between 1 and…

    This applicationApprovedTreesWD/D/20/001238

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