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Oak Cottage Church Road Lympstone Devon EX8 5JU

25/1690/TCATree in Conservation AreaDecided

Decided on 29 September 2025

Council decision: Split DecisionDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

T1, Ash: Pollard at 6-8m from ground level. T2, Ash: Re-Pollard back to previous pollard points. H1, Mix hedge/ tree line: Cherry, Oak, Ash, Hazel: reduce in height by approximately 1-2m back to pruning points. Crown lift all trees by 3m.

Received
13 August 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
1
Ward
Woodbury And Lympstone
Agent
DTG Trees & Grounds Ltd
  1. Received13 Aug
  2. Validated13 Aug
  3. Consult.12 Sep
  4. Target
  5. Decided29 Sep

Decided in 47 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a tree application at Oak Cottage Church Road Lympstone Devon EX8 5JU. East Devon has handled 873 applications of this type. The site is in the Lympstone conservation area, with 10 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 80 applications across Woodbury And Lympstone. We hold 363 applications in total for the EX8 postcode area.

90% of trees applications at East Devon District Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 7 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
EX8 5JU
Application type
Tree in Conservation Area
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Lympstone

Planning application dates

Date validated
13 August 2025
Consultation expiry
20 August 2025
Last date for comments
12 September 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent
DTG Trees & Grounds Ltd
Agent address
Mr Thomas Nicotra 28 Triumph Place Teignmouth Devon TQ14 8GL

Publicity

Last advertised
20 August 2025

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14253461
Documents
6

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 2: Medium probability (rivers and sea)Part of the site
  • Conservation area: Lympstone
  • Listed building: Grade II: Oak CottageOn this site · +3 more

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 (20)

flood storage areas, 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.

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: East Devon

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