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16 Crofts Park Hepscott Northumberland NE61 6LJ

26/00467/PRUTPOApplication for Works to Protected TreeApproved

Approved on 7 April 2026

Council decision: Permit Tree WorksDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Tree Preservation Order Application - T2 and T3 (cypress) crown and height reductions to 12 metres above ground in order to manage foreseeable structural risk while retaining both trees

Received
9 February 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Choppington & Hepscott
  1. Received9 Feb
  2. Validated9 Feb
  3. Consult.7 Apr
  4. Target6 Apr
  5. Decided7 Apr

Decided in 57 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a tree application at 16 Crofts Park Hepscott Northumberland NE61 6LJ. Northumberland (County) has handled 1,426 applications of this type. This one was decided in 57 days, 8 days longer than Northumberland (County)'s typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 24 applications across Choppington & Hepscott. We hold 1,506 applications in total for the NE61 postcode area.

97% of trees applications at Northumberland County Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 7 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
NE61 6LJ
Application type
Application for Works to Protected Tree
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Hepscott

Planning application dates

Date validated
9 February 2026
Consultation start
9 February 2026
Consultation end
7 April 2026
Last date for comments
2 March 2026
Target decision date
6 April 2026

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14683753
Comments
0
Documents
5
Constraints
12

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (24)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders, 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.

Source: Northumberland (County)

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