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7 Duncastle Court Main Road Alvington Lydney Gloucestershire GL15 6FF

P1887/21/TCATrees within a Conservation AreaApproved

Approved on 15 December 2021

Council decision: Granted PermissionDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Removing 2 oaks from front garden, leaving third oak to develop without being crowded. Remove single ash with ash dieback from back garden, and remove a small subservient oak that is interfering with a standard beech. Replanting will be with 3 x ornamental acers, of which at least one will be in the front garden.

Received
16 November 2021
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
St Briavels
  1. Received16 Nov
  2. Validated16 Nov
  3. Consult.8 Dec
  4. Target28 Dec
  5. Decided15 Dec

Decided in 29 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at 7 Duncastle Court Main Road Alvington Lydney Gloucestershire GL15 6FF. Forest of Dean has handled 533 applications of this type. This one was decided in 29 days, 4 weeks quicker than Forest of Dean's typical decision time. The site is in the Alvington conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There has been 1 other application 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 6FF
Application type
Trees within a Conservation Area
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Alvington

Planning application dates

Date validated
16 November 2021
Consultation expiry
8 December 2021
Consultation start
17 November 2021
Consultation end
8 December 2021
Last date for comments
8 December 2021
Target decision date
28 December 2021
Permission expires
15 December 2023

Applicant and agent

Agent address
FAO Mr M Harris The Ruffets Main Road Woolaston Lydney GL15 6PJ

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Publicity

Site notice start
19 November 2021
Site notice end
3 December 2021

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
3

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Alvington Conservation Area
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (23)

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, 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

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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.

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Source: Forest of Dean

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