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Boarded the adjacent Agricultural Land, Whittle Hill, Preston, PR4 0BA

06/2022/1164Hedgerow RemovalApproved

Approved on 11 November 2022

Council decision: Removal of hedgerow approved

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

Proposal

Notice for removal of hedgerow of a total length of 20-25m under the Hedgerow Regulations (1997)

Submitted
3 October 2022
Ward
Preston Rural North
  1. Received3 Oct
  2. Validated3 Oct
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided11 Nov

Decided in 39 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a tree application at Boarded the adjacent Agricultural Land, Whittle Hill, Preston, PR4 0BA. Preston has handled 142 applications of this type. This one was decided in 39 days, 10 days quicker than Preston'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 45 applications across Preston Rural North. We hold 2,074 applications in total for the PR4 postcode area.

91% of all applications at Preston City Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 7 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
PR4 0BA
Application type
Hedgerow Removal
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Woodplumpton

Planning application dates

Date validated
3 October 2022

Additional information

Documents
11

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 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.

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