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Lee Manor to Southcliffe Hall Lee Ilfracombe Devon EX34 8LR

78706Trees in a Conservation AreaApproved

Approved on 11 June 2024

Delegated (officer decision)

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Notification of works to trees in a conservation area in respect of - Tree No: 1956 Sycamore - Remove to ground level. Tree No: 1957 Pedunculate Oak - Reduce lateral spread to north by 4 to 5m back to dominate upright stems, Tree No: T1 Pedunculate Oak - Remove to ground level. Tree 1959 Pedunculate Oak - Sever Ivy at base of tree. Tree 1960 Beech - Reduce crown to east to give 2m linear clearance to crown of tree 1959.

Received
1 May 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
ILFRACOMBE WEST
  1. Received1 May
  2. Validated1 May
  3. Consult.13 Jun
  4. Target
  5. Decided11 Jun

Decided in 41 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at Lee Manor to Southcliffe Hall Lee Ilfracombe Devon EX34 8LR. North Devon has handled 319 applications of this type. This one was decided in 41 days, 2 weeks quicker than North Devon's typical decision time. The site is in the Lee conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 15 applications across ILFRACOMBE WEST. We hold 583 applications in total for the EX34 postcode area.

97% of trees applications at North Devon District Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
EX34 8LR
Application type
Trees in a Conservation Area
Scale / size
Small
Parish
ILFRACOMBE

Planning application dates

Date validated
1 May 2024
Consultation expiry
13 June 2024
Consultation end
13 June 2024
Application expires
12 June 2024

Applicant and agent

Agent address
97 Century buildings 14 St Mary's Parsonage Manchester M3 2DE

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

Documents
5

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • Conservation area: Lee
  • National Landscape (AONB): North Devon
  • Heritage coast: North Devon
  • 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 (19)

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, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves 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.

Source: North Devon

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