Church Of St Philip And St James Vicarage Lane Norton St Philip Bath Somerset BA2 7LY
Approved on 16 July 2024
Council decision: TCA ApprovalDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
T1 and T2 - Yew Trees - Reduce height to 5m. This is to T3 - Yew Tree Remove - 2 large lower branches shorten the overall length, end-weight reduction, by up to 1.5 metres, to be achieved by pruning the smaller diameter branches - with pruning cuts not to exceed 80mm diameter. NB. amended specification for T3 agreed with applicant.
- Received
- 29 May 2024
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Mendip
- Ward
- Frome North Division
- ReceivedReceived29 May
- ValidatedValidated29 May
- Consult.Consultation
- TargetTarget Date10 Jul
- DecidedDecided16 Jul
Decided in 48 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is a tree application at Church Of St Philip And St James Vicarage Lane Norton St Philip Bath Somerset BA2 7LY. Mendip has handled 777 applications of this type. This one was decided in 48 days. The site is in the Norton St Philip conservation area, with 20 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 110 applications across Frome North Division. We hold 3,436 applications in total for the BA2 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
- BA2 7LY
- Application type
- Works/Felling Trees in a CA
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Norton St Philip Parish Council
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 29 May 2024
- Target decision date
- 10 July 2024
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 42 days
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Conservation area: Norton St Philip
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
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 (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.
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