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Northern Lawn Tennis And Squash Club Palatine Road Manchester M20 3YA

144392/TCA/2025Works to trees in Conservation AreaApproved

Approved on 28 November 2025

Council decision: No ObjectionDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Works to trees - T36 - Approx. 25x leylandii - Fell and grind stumps to 150mm below ground level; T33 - Large beech next to grass court - Brach reduce to clear neighbouring building by approximately 4m. Crown lift rest of crown by approximately 2m all round; T32 - Oak next to grass court - Crown lift to 7m over tennis club. Cut back rest of overhang by up to 2m ; T31 - Hornbeam in centre of site - Crown lift to 4m over path, Clear small epicormic growing towards balcony; T30 - Birch Birch - crown lift to 4m;T29 - Sweetgum - Crown lift to 4m. Clear building by 2m ; T26 - Purple plum - Crown reduce by 1-2m all round; T25 - Indian bean tree - Part crown reduce court side by up to 2m to rebalance crown. Crown lift to 4m all round. Clear lgiht column by 2m; T24 - Robinia - remove snapped branch and parent limb back to main stem; T19, T20 - 2x sorbus growing next to lighting column in south of site - Crown lift to 7m over courts. Clear lighting column by 2m; T23 - Hornbeam to be crown lifted to 6m and part crown reduced over court by 2-3m to rebalance crown; T22 - Purple plum and 2x conifers to be cut back to boundary; T37 - Yew next to car park - Crown lift to 5m over car park. Reduce longer branches growing over car park by 3-4m.

Received
29 October 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Didsbury West Ward
  1. Received29 Oct
  2. Validated29 Oct
  3. Consult.25 Nov
  4. Target
  5. Decided28 Nov

Decided in 30 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at Northern Lawn Tennis And Squash Club Palatine Road Manchester M20 3YA. Manchester has handled 614 applications of this type. This one was decided in 30 days, 4 weeks quicker than Manchester's typical decision time. The site is in the Blackburn Park, Didsbury conservation area. There have been 5 other applications 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 3YA
Application type
Works to trees in Conservation Area
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
29 October 2025
Consultation expiry
25 November 2025
Consultation end
25 November 2025
Permission expires
28 November 2027

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14449426
Comments
0
Documents
5

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Blackburn Park, Didsbury
  • Brownfield land register: The Rossett 123 Palatine Road M20 3YARegister site at or near this address
  • 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 (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.

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