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40 Highlands Road

MO/2025/0641Conservation Area TreesApproved

Approved on 9 May 2025

Delegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

1 No. Force Acacia located on eastern rear garden party boundary 4.4 metres from house. To remove two limbs that have been developing rot, and a general 2 metre canopy reduction; approxiamately two-metre height reduction to reduce excessive shading to rear gardens of nos 42 & 44 Highlands Road.

Submitted
10 April 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
  1. Received10 Apr
  2. Validated
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided9 May

Decided in 29 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a planning application at 40 Highlands Road. Mole Valley has handled 127 applications of this type. This one was decided in 29 days, 4 weeks quicker than Mole Valley's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 74 applications across Leatherhead South. We hold 1,530 applications in total for the KT22 postcode area.

100% of conservation area trees applications at Mole Valley District Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
KT22 8NJ
Application type
Conservation Area Trees

Applicant and agent

Applicant
Private applicant

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • 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 (22)

flood storage areas, conservation 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

Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The Historic England GIS Data contained in this material was obtained on 2026-11-03. The most publicly available up to date Historic England GIS Data can be obtained from HistoricEngland.org.uk.

© 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.

Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Planning history at this site

1 other application at this property, newest first.

  1. 2026
    6 Oct

    Removal (felling) of tree No 1 - Acacia and No 2 - Beech.

    ApprovedConservation Area TreesMO/2026/01490

Source: Mole Valley

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