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Alton Street Surgery Alton Street Ross-On-Wye Herefordshire HR9 5AB

P224003/KWorks to Trees in a Conservation AreaApproved

Approved on 23 February 2023

Council decision: Trees in Cons Area Works Can Proceed

Proposal

Proposed works to T1 Whitebeam growing on the corner of the garden to the road side. T2,3,4 are Birch also growing in the front border - would like fell all 4 trees to allow light to the south facing roof which is to be used for solar photovoltaics. Applicant proposes to maintain the current shrub boarder beside fence and pavement to create a screen between the building and road.

Received
29 November 2022
Ward
Ross East
  1. Received29 Nov
  2. Validated29 Nov
  3. Consult.6 Jan
  4. Target10 Jan
  5. Decided23 Feb

Decided in 86 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at Alton Street Surgery Alton Street Ross-On-Wye Herefordshire HR9 5AB. Herefordshire has handled 1,326 applications of this type. This one was decided in 86 days, 4 weeks longer than Herefordshire's typical decision time. The site is in the Ross-on-Wye conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 55 applications across Ross East. We hold 4,980 applications in total for the HR9 postcode area.

98% of trees applications at Herefordshire Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
HR9 5AB
Application type
Works to Trees in a Conservation Area
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Ross-on-Wye Town

Planning application dates

Date validated
29 November 2022
Consultation expiry
6 January 2023
Consultation start
13 December 2022
Consultation end
6 January 2023
Last date for comments
6 January 2023
Target decision date
10 January 2023

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Ecotech Tree Care The Haven Llangrove Ross-On-Wye Herefordshire HR9 6ET

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Publicity

Last advertised
13 December 2022

Additional information

Documents
5

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: Ross-on-Wye
  • Heritage at Risk Register: Ross-on-Wye
  • National Landscape (AONB): Wye Valley
  • 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, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, 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: Herefordshire

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