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261 Burton Road Manchester M20 2WA

143869/TPO/2025Work to trees in Tree Preservation OrderApproved

Approved on 16 October 2025

Council decision: No ObjectionDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Works to trees - proposed pruning works to 2x silver birch incorporating an approximately 30% completed crown reduction.

Received
1 September 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Didsbury West Ward
  1. Received1 Sep
  2. Validated1 Sep
  3. Consult.3 Oct
  4. Target
  5. Decided16 Oct

Decided in 45 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at 261 Burton Road Manchester M20 2WA. 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 Albert Park, West Didsbury conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 75 applications across Didsbury West 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 2WA
Application type
Work to trees in Tree Preservation Order
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
1 September 2025
Consultation expiry
3 October 2025
Consultation end
3 October 2025
Permission expires
16 October 2027

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14296049
Comments
0
Documents
3

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Albert Park, West Didsbury
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

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 (21)

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, 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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