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28 Medway Place Plymouth PL3 6HB

25/01404/TPORefused

Refused on 22 December 2025

Council decision: Refuse1 reason for refusal

Site boundary (council red line)

Proposal

1. Edler Tree Fell 2. Beech Tree, to remove 6/7 small branches no thicker than 3/4 inches up to the trunk to the main fork of the tree. Tree height around 24 metres. Remove 3 limbs by 5 metres down to a natural growing point, All three limbs no more than 6 inches in diameter back to fence line.

Received
22 October 2025
  1. Received22 Oct
  2. Validated29 Oct
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided22 Dec

Decided in 54 days

About this application

This is a planning application at 28 Medway Place Plymouth PL3 6HB. Plymouth has handled 2,057 applications of this type. This one was decided in 54 days, 5 days longer than Plymouth's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There has been 1 other application at this address. We hold 230 applications in total for the PL3 postcode area.

Why it was refused

  1. CONDITION: Refusal The Applicant has stated on the Application Forms that the trees are not causing damage and are not at risk of either 'breaking or falling'. No other justification has been provided to support the works. Any pruning of a tree is harmful and exposes the tree to pathogenic entry and removes photosynthetic area at the same time as requiring the tree to expend energy as it responds to wounding so all works should be supported with reasons to say why the harm is justified. On this Application that justification is not supplied even though the Forms are clear that reasons for the work must be submitted. Due to this the Proposal is refused.

From the council's decision notice.

Application details

Postcode
PL3 6HB

Planning application dates

Date validated
29 October 2025

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
  • Tree Preservation OrderPart of the site
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
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.

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