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Basement Scotscroft Towers Business Park Wilmslow Road Manchester M20 2RY

137775/TPO/2023Work to trees in Tree Preservation OrderApproved

Approved on 27 October 2023

Council decision: No ObjectionDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Works to trees - G1 remove epicormic shoots on limes on Kingston Rd; G1/2 Maple remove dead branches greater than 30mm;G1/3 Chestnut remove dead branches greater than 30mm; G1/15 remove dead branches greater than 30mm; G1/31 Done 2022 G1/32 Lime remove dead branches greater than 30mm ; G1/49 Ash fell to ground level; G1/50 fell to ground level 1/49 fell to a low stump; G2/40 Remove dead branches of a dia. greater than 50mm; G3 Limes remove major deadwood; 9 Clear pathways through low vegetation to enable clear views of larger tree stem; G10/34 Maple dead fell to a low stump G10/37 Beech fell to a low stump; G11 Lift crown/s to provide a minimum 3m ground clearance - over car park; G13/22 Sycamore fell to a low stump; G13 remove major deadwood

Received
4 August 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Didsbury East Ward
  1. Received4 Aug
  2. Validated4 Aug
  3. Consult.21 Sep
  4. Target
  5. Decided27 Oct

Decided in 84 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at Basement Scotscroft Towers Business Park Wilmslow Road Manchester M20 2RY. Manchester has handled 614 applications of this type. This one was decided in 84 days, 4 weeks longer than Manchester's typical decision time. The site is in the Didsbury St James conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 52 applications across Didsbury East Ward. We hold 641 applications in total for the M20 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
M20 2RY
Application type
Work to trees in Tree Preservation Order
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
4 August 2023
Consultation expiry
21 September 2023
Consultation end
21 September 2023
Permission expires
27 October 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent
Hindle and Brown Tree care
Agent address
Neddygate Shrigley Road Pott Shrigley Macclesfield SK10 5SG

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-12365406
Comments
0
Documents
4

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

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, 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, 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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© 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.

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