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5 The Walled Garden 17 Alness Road Whalley Range Manchester M16 8SP

111479/TCA/2016/S1Works to trees in Conservation AreaApproved

Approved on 6 May 2016

Delegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Works to trees - proposed crown reduction to 2x Sycamores by 4m and crown lift by 2m back to good growing points

Received
22 March 2016
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Whalley Range Ward (2004)
  1. Received22 Mar
  2. Validated22 Mar
  3. Consult.14 Apr
  4. Target3 May
  5. Decided6 May

Decided in 45 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at 5 The Walled Garden 17 Alness Road Whalley Range Manchester M16 8SP. Manchester has handled 614 applications of this type. This one was decided in 45 days, 11 days quicker than Manchester's typical decision time. The site is in the Whalley Range conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 1,319 applications in total for the M16 postcode area.

99% of trees applications at Manchester City Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
M16 8SP
Application type
Works to trees in Conservation Area
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
22 March 2016
Consultation expiry
14 April 2016
Consultation start
24 March 2016
Consultation end
14 April 2016
Target decision date
3 May 2016
Permission expires
6 May 2018

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-04884630
Comments
0
Documents
3

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)Part of the site
  • Conservation area: Whalley Range
  • Brownfield land register: Land At The Junction Of Alness Road And Wellington RoadRegister site at or near this address

Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions. Ask the council if these matter.

Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.

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.

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