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St Andrew Car Park St Andrew Street Wells Somerset BA5 2UR

2023/1617/TCAWorks/Felling Trees in a CAApproved

Approved on 10 October 2023

Council decision: TCA ApprovalDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

4 x Raywood Ash - selective reduction by up to 2m, pruning to suitable growing points 2 x Birch - reduce by 2.5m

Received
22 August 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Council
Mendip
Ward
Wells Division
  1. Received22 Aug
  2. Validated23 Aug
  3. Consult.
  4. Target4 Oct
  5. Decided10 Oct

Decided in 48 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a tree application at St Andrew Car Park St Andrew Street Wells Somerset BA5 2UR. Mendip has handled 777 applications of this type. This one was decided in 49 days. The site is in the Wells conservation area, with 14 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 115 applications across Wells Division. We hold 1,945 applications in total for the BA5 postcode area.

96% of trees applications at Mendip were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 7 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
BA5 2UR
Application type
Works/Felling Trees in a CA
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Wells City Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
23 August 2023
Target decision date
4 October 2023

Applicant and agent

Agent
Mr Jacob Knight
Agent address
29 The Vineyards Coxley Somerset BA5 1FN

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
4
Constraints
12

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 and tree preservation orders. Ask the council if these matter.

Also checked, none recorded (19)

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, 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.

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Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

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Planning history at this site

1 other application at this property, newest first.

  1. 2025
    21 Oct

    T1 - Cedar - fell & replace TPO M1076

    PendingWorks/Felling of TPO Trees2025/1912/TPO

Source: Mendip

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