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St Johns Church Emesgate Lane Silverdale Carnforth Lancashire LA5 0RH

23/0201/TPOWorks to TPO TreesApproved

Approved on 8 February 2024

Council decision: Application PermittedTree Works Decision

Proposal

Yew (T1) - Remove deadwood and reduce canopy spread by 1m Yew (T3) - Reduce canopy spread by 2m and remove deadwood Ash (T2, T4-T6) - FellLaurel (T7) - Reduce to 1m coppice and allow regrowth, manage as hedge

Received
21 December 2023
Decision level
Tree Works Decision
Public comments
1
Ward
Silverdale Ward
Agent
Tree Check Ltd
  1. Received21 Dec
  2. Validated21 Dec
  3. Consult.4 Jan
  4. Target18 Jan
  5. Decided8 Feb

Decided in 49 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a tree application at St Johns Church Emesgate Lane Silverdale Carnforth Lancashire LA5 0RH. Lancaster has handled 457 applications of this type. This one was decided in 49 days. The site is in 1 listed building nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 20 applications across Silverdale Ward. We hold 1,156 applications in total for the LA5 postcode area.

100% of trees applications at Lancaster City Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 7 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
LA5 0RH
Application type
Works to TPO Trees
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Silverdale

Planning application dates

Date validated
21 December 2023
Consultation expiry
4 January 2024
Consultation start
21 December 2023
Consultation end
4 January 2024
Last date for comments
4 January 2024
Target decision date
18 January 2024
Permission expires
8 February 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent
Tree Check Ltd
Agent address
252 Leyland lane Leyland Preston pr25 1xl United Kingdom

Planning decision

Statutory period
28 days

Additional information

Documents
4
Constraints
1

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • Listed building: Grade II*: Church of St. JohnOn or next to this site
  • National Landscape (AONB): Arnside & Silverdale
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Not published by this council, so not checked: tree preservation orders. Ask the council if these matter.

Also checked, none recorded (21)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, Article 4 directions, 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

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.

Planning history at this site

1 other application at this property, newest first.

  1. 2025
    27 Nov

    Tree works as detailed in the submitted report dated 12/11/2025

    ApprovedApplication25/0254/TPO

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