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Lincoln Minster Prep School Church Lane Lincoln Lincolnshire LN2 1QR

2023/0516/TCOTrees in Conservation AreaApproved

Approved on 14 August 2023

Council decision: No ObjectionsDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

T54 (English oak) - Crown raise to remove hazardous/ defective branches. Remove stub cut branches on the south side of crown at 6m height that are rubbing and growing towards the telephone wires. Remove branches 2.5M away from Stonefield lodge and number 25 church lane to prevent squirrel entry to roofs and to provide more light. T56 (Sweet Chestnut) - Remove 3 limbs back to main trunk, on north and east side of crown from telephone lines.

Received
18 July 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Minster
  1. Received18 Jul
  2. Validated18 Jul
  3. Consult.8 Aug
  4. Target30 Aug
  5. Decided14 Aug

Decided in 27 days (council typically 42)

About this application

This is a tree application at Lincoln Minster Prep School Church Lane Lincoln Lincolnshire LN2 1QR. Lincoln has handled 193 applications of this type. This one was decided in 27 days, 2 weeks quicker than Lincoln's typical decision time. The site is in the Newport and Nettleham Road conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 62 applications across Minster. We hold 1,445 applications in total for the LN2 postcode area.

95% of trees applications at Lincoln City Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 6 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
LN2 1QR
Application type
Trees in Conservation Area
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
18 July 2023
Consultation expiry
8 August 2023
Last date for comments
8 August 2023
Target decision date
30 August 2023
Permission expires
14 August 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
27 Saxilby Road Skellingthorpe Lincoln LN6 5TY

Planning decision

Statutory period
43 days

Publicity

Site notice start
8 August 2023
Site notice end
8 August 2023

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
1
Constraints
44

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Newport and Nettleham Road
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers. Ask the council if these matter.

Also checked, none recorded (20)

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 and heritage coasts.

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.

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