Green Meadows High Street St Briavels Lydney Gloucestershire GL15 6TD
Approved on 22 July 2026
Delegated (officer decision)
Proposal
Lift crown of Sweet Chestnut to 5 metres above ground level over the roadside and to 3 metres above ground level over the adjacent footpath and garden areas. Remove all dead wood throughout the crown.
- Received
- 24 June 2026
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Ward
- St Briavels
- ReceivedReceived24 Jun
- ValidatedValidated24 Jun
- Consult.Consultation16 Jul
- TargetTarget Date5 Aug
- DecidedDecided22 Jul
Decided in 28 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a tree application at Green Meadows High Street St Briavels Lydney Gloucestershire GL15 6TD. Forest of Dean has handled 533 applications of this type. This one was decided in 28 days, 4 weeks quicker than Forest of Dean's typical decision time. The site is in the St Briavels conservation area. There have been 2 other applications 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 6TD
- Application type
- Trees within a Conservation Area
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- St Briavels
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 24 June 2026
- Consultation start
- 25 June 2026
- Consultation end
- 16 July 2026
- Last date for comments
- 16 July 2026
- Target decision date
- 5 August 2026
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- FAO Mr Christopher Preest GCC Highways Depot Vallets Wood Cannop Coleford Gloucestershire GL16 7EH
Planning decision
- Case officer
- Stuart Payne
- Statutory period
- 42 days
Additional information
- Documents
- 13
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Conservation area: St Briavels Conservation Area
- National Landscape (AONB): Wye ValleyPart of the site
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (22)
flood storage areas, listed buildings, Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders, 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.
Planning history at this site
2 other applications at this property, newest first.
- 202622 Apr
Reduce Walnut (T1) by approximately 4 metres and Cherry (T2) by approximately 3 metres in accordance with…
PendingTrees within a Conservation AreaP0472/26/TCA - 202524 Jan
Remove large Ash (T1) in back garden leaning over neighbours garden and boundary fence. The tree is infected…
ApprovedTrees within a Conservation AreaP0093/25/TCA
Source: Forest of Dean
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