40 Northumberland Street New Town Edinburgh EH3 6JA
Refused on 6 June 2025
Council decision: Not make a Tree Preservation OrderDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
6m high Prunus and 6m high Rowan reduce height of longest branches by around 90cm to just below telephone lines.
- Received
- 15 May 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- City of Edinburgh Council
- Ward
- City Centre
- ReceivedReceived15 May
- ValidatedValidated15 May
- Consult.Consultation5 Jun
- TargetTarget Date25 Jun
- DecidedDecided6 Jun
Decided in 22 days (council typically 42)
About this application
This is a tree application at 40 Northumberland Street New Town Edinburgh EH3 6JA. Edinburgh has handled 1,501 applications of this type. This one was decided in 22 days, 3 weeks quicker than Edinburgh's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 303 applications across City Centre. We hold 913 applications in total for the EH3 postcode area.
24% of trees applications at City of Edinburgh Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 6 weeks (median).
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Application details
- Postcode
- EH3 6JA
- Application type
- Treework Within a Conservation Area
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- New Town/Broughton (pre 28 March 2025)
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 15 May 2025
- Last date for comments
- 5 June 2025
- Target decision date
- 25 June 2025
- Permission expires
- 6 June 2025
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- FAO: Richard Hattersley-Smith Lantern House 3 Windsor Street Edinburgh EH7 5LA
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 41 days
Site constraints
Source: Edinburgh
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