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Woodbank Main Street Skeffington Leicestershire LE7 9YB

17/02055/DDDDead Dying Diseased TreesApproved

Approved on 4 December 2017

Council decision: ApproveDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Ash Tree at the front Garden near the hedge close to the main street . It Has large head branch right at the top which is dead according the tree surgeonIt can fall any time on to the road or passers by or the vehicles Needs urgent attention and removal of the dead branch right at the top of the treeI spoke to you staff this morning advised on line form filling or an email from the agentHence , urgent personal request to trim the dead branch

Received
30 November 2017
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Tilton
  1. Received30 Nov
  2. Validated30 Nov
  3. Consult.
  4. Target5 Dec
  5. Decided4 Dec

Decided in 4 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at Woodbank Main Street Skeffington Leicestershire LE7 9YB. Harborough has handled 1,511 applications of this type. This one was decided in 4 days, 7 weeks quicker than Harborough's typical decision time. The site is in the Skeffington conservation area, with 2 listed buildings nearby. There have been 2 other applications at this address. We hold 2,736 applications in total for the LE7 postcode area.

96% of trees applications at Harborough District Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
LE7 9YB
Application type
Dead Dying Diseased Trees
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Skeffington

Planning application dates

Date validated
30 November 2017
Target decision date
5 December 2017

Planning decision

Statutory period
5 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-06577032
Documents
0

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • Conservation area: Skeffington
  • 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 (21)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, 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

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: Harborough

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