Cherry Tree Cottage, Horsham Road, Holmbury St Mary, Dorking, RH5 6PD
Approved on 19 June 2009
Council decision: Tree Application ApprovedDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
Application to crown reduce two Yew trees in rear garden back to old topping points by approx 6 metres (20ft). (Holmbury St Mary Conservation Area).
- Received
- 23 January 2008
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Guildford Borough Council
- Ward
- Tillingbourne
- ReceivedReceived23 Jan
- ValidatedValidated23 Jan
- Consult.Consultation5 Mar
- TargetTarget Date5 Mar
- DecidedDecided19 Jun
Decided in 513 days (council typically 63)
About this application
This is a tree application at Cherry Tree Cottage, Horsham Road, Holmbury St Mary, Dorking, RH5 6PD. Guildford has handled 655 applications of this type. This one was decided in 513 days, 64 weeks longer than Guildford's typical decision time. The site is in the Holmbury St Mary conservation area. There have been 5 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 173 applications across Tillingbourne. We hold 1,886 applications in total for the RH5 postcode area.
99% of trees applications at Guildford Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 9 weeks (median).
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Application details
- Postcode
- RH5 6PD
- Application type
- Trees in Conservation Area
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Shere
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 23 January 2008
- Last date for comments
- 5 March 2008
- Target decision date
- 5 March 2008
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 42 days
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- Conservation area: Holmbury St Mary
- Green belt: Guildford
- National Landscape (AONB): Surrey Hills
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
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 (19)
flood storage areas, listed buildings, 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.
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Planning history at this site
5 other applications at this property, newest first.
- 202627 Aug
2 Yew trees - Reduce crowns by 2m leaving at a height of 14m and overall width of 14m, raise crowns to 5m…
ApprovedApplication26/T/00226 - 202528 Jul
Erection of a retaining front wall, hard standing to provide car parking space, new steps to the property and…
ApprovedFull Application25/P/01083 - 202211 Apr
T1 & T2 Yew trees - reduce height by approximately 5m leaving 5m in height and reduce both sides by…
ApprovedTrees in Conservation Area22/T/00085 - 20198 Mar
New retaining wall at front of site faced in locally sourced stone, hard standing to provide car parking…
ApprovedFull Application19/P/00426 - 20154 Mar
New 1.3m front retaining wall to be erected with hedge on top, resiting of tree, new hardstanding to provide…
RefusedFull Application15/P/00589
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