Norwethel Lower Road St Briavels Lydney Gloucestershire GL15 6SA
Approved on 16 March 2026
Delegated (officer decision)
Proposal
Fell three mature Sycamore saplings within small woodland that are inhibiting the growth of adjacent Beech trees.
- Received
- 5 February 2026
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Ward
- St Briavels
- ReceivedReceived5 Feb
- ValidatedValidated9 Feb
- Consult.Consultation2 Mar
- TargetTarget Date23 Mar
- DecidedDecided16 Mar
Decided in 35 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a tree application at Norwethel Lower Road St Briavels Lydney Gloucestershire GL15 6SA. Forest of Dean has handled 533 applications of this type. This one was decided in 39 days, 2 weeks quicker than Forest of Dean's typical decision time. The site is in 2 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 39 applications across St Briavels. We hold 2,311 applications in total for the GL15 postcode area.
99% of trees applications at Forest of Dean District Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).
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Application details
- Postcode
- GL15 6SA
- Application type
- Trees within a Conservation Area
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- St Briavels
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 9 February 2026
- Consultation expiry
- 2 March 2026
- Consultation start
- 9 February 2026
- Consultation end
- 2 March 2026
- Last date for comments
- 2 March 2026
- Target decision date
- 23 March 2026
- Permission expires
- 16 March 2028
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 42 days
Publicity
- Site notice start
- 12 February 2026
- Site notice end
- 26 February 2026
Additional information
- Documents
- 7
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Conservation area: St Briavels Conservation AreaPart of the site
- Tree Preservation Order: DFTPO23Part of the site
- National Landscape (AONB): Wye Valley
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
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, 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: Forest of Dean
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