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School Playing Field Homefield Road Exeter

25/1166/TPOWorks to Protected Trees (TPO)Approved

Approved on 22 October 2025

Council decision: PermittedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

T1 Lime re-pollard T2 Sycamore remove major dead wood T3 Sycamore (dead) Fell. T4 A group. Remove dead stems T5 Sycamore remove major dead wood T6 Lime remove major dead wood T8 Lime re-pollard T9 Lime remove major dead wood T11 Lime remove major dead wood

Received
26 August 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
3
Ward
Heavitree
  1. Received26 Aug
  2. Validated26 Aug
  3. Consult.26 Sep
  4. Target22 Oct
  5. Decided22 Oct

Decided in 57 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a tree application at School Playing Field Homefield Road Exeter. Exeter has handled 798 applications of this type. This one was decided in 57 days, 8 days longer than Exeter's typical decision time. The site is in the Heavitree conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 50 applications across Heavitree.

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

Application type
Works to Protected Trees (TPO)
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
26 August 2025
Last date for comments
26 September 2025
Target decision date
22 October 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Bridford Wood House Dunsford Exeter EX6 7ER

Planning decision

Statutory period
57 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14282440
Documents
8

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Heavitree
  • Brownfield land register: 47 Homefield Road, Exeter, EX1 2QRRegister site at or near this address
  • 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 (21)

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 and heritage coasts.

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

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© 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.

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