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36 St Davids Hill Exeter Devon EX4 4DT

20/0135/CATWorks to Trees in a Conservation AreaApproved

Approved on 3 March 2020

Council decision: PermittedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Two silver birch trees approx 22 ft high. One badly managed in the past, the other provides excess shade to the summer house. Remove both, new silver birch tree to be replanted.

Received
3 February 2020
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
St Davids
  1. Received3 Feb
  2. Validated3 Feb
  3. Consult.
  4. Target16 Mar
  5. Decided3 Mar

Decided in 29 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a tree application at 36 St Davids Hill Exeter Devon EX4 4DT. Exeter has handled 798 applications of this type. This one was decided in 29 days, 3 weeks quicker than Exeter's typical decision time. The site is in the St David's conservation area, with 19 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 89 applications across St Davids. We hold 1,347 applications in total for the EX4 postcode area.

97% of trees applications at Exeter City Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 7 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
EX4 4DT
Application type
Works to Trees in a Conservation Area
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
3 February 2020
Target decision date
16 March 2020

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-08475178
Comments
0
Documents
3

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • Conservation area: St. David's
  • Listed building: Grade II: 42, St Davids HillOn or next to this site
  • Article 4 direction: 2023 Article 4 Direction
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

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, 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.

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