St John the Baptist Church, The Street, Capel, Dorking, Surrey, RH5 5LA document.write(" . View Map ")
Proposal
Reduce the height of 2 No. Douglas Fir trees (located on north east boundary) by 5 metres.
- Received
- 12 November 2015
- Decided
- 11 December 2015 · NO OBJECTION
- Council
- Mole Valley District Council
- Ward
- Capel, Leigh & Newdigate
- ReceivedSubmitted12 Nov
- ValidatedValidated12 Nov
- Consult.Consultation10 Dec
- TargetTarget Date
- DecidedDecided11 Dec
Decided in 29 days (council typically 56)
This is a tree application at St John the Baptist Church, The Street, Capel, Dorking, Surrey, RH5 5LA document.write(" . View Map ");. Mole Valley has handled 557 applications of this type and approves nearly all of them, typically deciding them in 43 days. This one was decided in 29 days, 2 weeks quicker than Mole Valley's median. The site is in the Capel conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 1,855 applications in total for the RH5 postcode area.
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Planning constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Conservation area
- Green belt: Mole ValleyNext to the site
- 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, listed buildings, 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.
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