First Floor Flat, 46 College Avenue Plymouth PL4 7AN

25/01237/TCOWorks to a Tree in a Conservation AreaApproved

Approved on 26 October 2025

Delegated (officer decision)

Site boundary (council red line)

Proposal

T1 Pittosporum - reduce height and width to approximatly 3m heigh and 2.5m wide

Received: 23 September 2025
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Council: Plymouth City Council
Ward: COMPTON

ReceivedReceived23 Sep
ValidatedValidated23 Sep
Consult.Consultation21 Oct
TargetTarget Date4 Nov
DecidedDecided26 Oct

Decided in 33 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a tree application at First Floor Flat, 46 College Avenue Plymouth PL4 7AN. Plymouth has handled 146 applications of this type. This one was decided in 33 days, 2 weeks quicker than Plymouth's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 63 applications across COMPTON. We hold 268 applications in total for the PL4 postcode area.

95% of trees applications at Plymouth City Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 7 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode: PL4 7AN
Application type: Works to a Tree in a Conservation Area
Scale / size: Small

Planning application dates

Date validated: 23 September 2025
Last date for comments: 21 October 2025
Target decision date: 4 November 2025
Decision issued: 27 October 2025
Permission expires: 27 October 2027

Applicant and agent

Agent: AAT
Agent address: 24 Greenwood Park Road Plymouth PL7 2WE

Planning decision

Statutory period: 42 days

Additional information

Comments: 0
Documents: 4
Constraints: 2

Site constraints

Checking the site

2/3

Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

Article 4 direction: HMOs Mutley, Greenbank, City Centre and surrounding areas
Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Also checked, none recorded (23)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, 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.

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© 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.

Source: Plymouth

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