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The Firs Firs Road Ross-On-Wye Herefordshire HR9 5BH

P241977/JWorks to trees covered by TPOApproved

Approved on 4 October 2024

Council decision: Trees covered by TPO – Consent Granted

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Row of Lime trees in TPO area 028. Lime Trees along drive – crown liftto 10ft, remove low branches. The trees are starting to merge togetherto look more like a hedge. We would like to crown lift them to 10 footto create space and improve the shape of the trees.

Received
2 August 2024
Ward
Ross West
  1. Received2 Aug
  2. Validated2 Aug
  3. Consult.4 Sep
  4. Target27 Sep
  5. Decided4 Oct

Decided in 63 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a planning application at The Firs Firs Road Ross-On-Wye Herefordshire HR9 5BH. Herefordshire has handled 591 applications of this type. This one was decided in 63 days, 7 days longer than Herefordshire's typical decision time. There have been 3 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 44 applications across Ross West. We hold 4,980 applications in total for the HR9 postcode area.

91% of works to trees covered by tpo 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 5BH
Application type
Works to trees covered by TPO
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Ross-on-Wye Town

Planning application dates

Date validated
2 August 2024
Consultation expiry
4 September 2024
Consultation start
6 August 2024
Consultation end
4 September 2024
Last date for comments
4 September 2024
Target decision date
27 September 2024

Applicant and agent

Applicant
Private applicant
Agent address
Chapel Tree Services The Old Coach House, Alton Court Penyard Lane Ross-On-Wye Herefordshire HR9 5NR

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Last advertised
6 August 2024

Additional information

Documents
9

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • 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 (21)

flood storage areas, conservation 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, 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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© 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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