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Flat 1, The Chestnuts The Avenue Ross-On-Wye Herefordshire HR9 5AW

P251319/KWorks to Trees in a Conservation AreaApproved

Approved on 10 June 2025

Council decision: Trees in Cons Area Works Can Proceed

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Three yew trees (Indicated 1, 2 and 3 on plan and images 1 and 2) which have been unevenly cut by previous owner creating an uneven balance. Maintenance to be carried out for these trees to be of a morenatural shape to create an even balance. To reduce the risk of fallingonto the adjacent path/highway and improve the aesthetics of the boundary. Height of the trees will be reduced by approximately 10-15 percent. Part of the trunk of a chestnut tree (Indicated 4 on plan andimage 3) has not had growth for three years, it is proposed to remove the dead parts of this tree to minimize the risk of disease and falling onto adjacent public pathway.

Received
30 April 2025
Ward
Ross East
  1. Received30 Apr
  2. Validated15 May
  3. Consult.7 Jun
  4. Target26 Jun
  5. Decided10 Jun

Decided in 26 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a planning application at Flat 1, The Chestnuts The Avenue Ross-On-Wye Herefordshire HR9 5AW. Herefordshire has handled 1,765 applications of this type. This one was decided in 26 days, 4 weeks quicker than Herefordshire's typical decision time. The site is in the Ross-on-Wye conservation area. 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.

99% of works to trees in a conservation area 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 5AW
Application type
Works to Trees in a Conservation Area
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Ross-on-Wye Town

Planning application dates

Date validated
15 May 2025
Consultation expiry
7 June 2025
Consultation start
16 May 2025
Consultation end
7 June 2025
Last date for comments
7 June 2025
Target decision date
26 June 2025

Applicant and agent

Applicant
Private applicant

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Publicity

Last advertised
16 May 2025

Additional information

Documents
14

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • 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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