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Dunster Castle Castle Hill Dunster Minehead TA24 6SL

EXM/26/066/TCATree(s) in Conservation AreaApproved

Approved on 1 May 2026

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

Proposal

Works to trees in a conservation area: reduction of 1 x Normway Maple, 1 x Sycamore, 1 x Alder & 1 x Unknown

Received
23 February 2026
Council
Exmoor
  1. Received23 Feb
  2. Validated
  3. Consult.18 Mar
  4. Target
  5. Decided1 May

Decided in 67 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at Dunster Castle Castle Hill Dunster Minehead TA24 6SL. Exmoor has handled 37 applications of this type. This one was decided in 67 days, 11 days longer than Exmoor's typical decision time. The site is in the Dunster conservation area, with 2 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 1,196 applications in total for the TA24 postcode area.

93% of all applications at Exmoor were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
TA24 6SL
Application type
Tree(s) in Conservation Area
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Validated
23 February 2026
Consultation expiry
27 March 2026
Consultation start
25 February 2026
Consultation end
18 March 2026
Application expires
6 April 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent
The National Trust

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Publicity

Advertisement expiry
27 March 2026

Additional information

Documents
4

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

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 (18)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, green belt, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered battlefields, Heritage at Risk entries, nutrient neutrality catchments, 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: Exmoor

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