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St Catherines New North Road Exeter Devon EX4 4AG

21/0957/CATWorks to Trees in a Conservation AreaApproved

Approved on 6 August 2021

Council decision: PermittedDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

We would like to prune a tree very close to the boundary of our house, and overhanging the Harefield Close. The tree is also quite close to the property with the routes undergrowing and is now very large and spread very wide. We believe the tree is a beach tree.

Received
15 June 2021
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Duryard And St James
  1. Received15 Jun
  2. Validated15 Jun
  3. Consult.
  4. Target27 Jul
  5. Decided6 Aug

Decided in 52 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a tree application at St Catherines New North Road Exeter Devon EX4 4AG. Exeter has handled 798 applications of this type. This one was decided in 52 days, 3 days longer than Exeter's typical decision time. The site is in the Taddyforde conservation area. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 73 applications across Duryard And St James. We hold 1,348 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 4AG
Application type
Works to Trees in a Conservation Area
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
15 June 2021
Target decision date
27 July 2021

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-09941230
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: Taddyforde
  • 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 (22)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, 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, 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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