31 And 32 St Annes Drive Wolsingham DL13 3DG
Approved on 1 November 2017
Council decision: Raise No ObjectionFast Track
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Proposal
T1 Sycamore - 15% crown thin and removal of sucker stem over the car park, T2 Sycamore - fell, T3 Sycamore - crown lift to a height of 5/6m, T4 Sycamore - 15% crown thin, T5 Sycamore - crown lift to remove lowest 3 branches and thin by 10%. Trees in conservation area.
- Received
- 27 September 2017
- Decision level
- Fast Track
- Council
- Durham County Council
- Ward
- Weardale
- ReceivedReceived27 Sep
- ValidatedValidated27 Sep
- Consult.Consultation23 Oct
- TargetTarget Date7 Nov
- DecidedDecided1 Nov
Decided in 35 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a tree application at 31 And 32 St Annes Drive Wolsingham DL13 3DG. Durham has handled 1,460 applications of this type. This one was decided in 35 days, 3 weeks quicker than Durham's typical decision time. The site is in the Wolsingham conservation area, with 3 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 68 applications across Weardale. We hold 1,944 applications in total for the DL13 postcode area.
90% of trees applications at Durham County Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).
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Application details
- Postcode
- DL13 3DG
- Application type
- Trees in a Conservation Area
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Wolsingham
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 27 September 2017
- Consultation expiry
- 23 October 2017
- Consultation start
- 2 October 2017
- Consultation end
- 23 October 2017
- Last date for comments
- 23 October 2017
- Target decision date
- 7 November 2017
- Permission expires
- 1 November 2019
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Hamsterley Tree Surgeons
- Agent address
- Hoppyland Lodge Bedburn Bishop Auckland Co Durham DL13 3NP
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 41 days
Additional information
- Documents
- 2
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Conservation area: Wolsingham
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
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 (21)
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, 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.
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Planning history at this site
1 other application at this property, newest first.
Source: Durham
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