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Bartonbury Rockshaw Road Merstham Surrey RH1 3BZ

23/02385/CANConservation Area NoticeApproved
Listed building consent

Approved on 8 January 2024

Delegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

The works involve digging a trench which will sever roots of a protected trees. The trench will be used for installing a root barrier between protected trees and the property which has been damaged by tree-root related subsidence. Details of the trench and barrier is provided in the arboricultural method statement in terms of the location of the trench, its distance from trees, its length and depth. Thus the reason for the application is tree-root related subsidence. If permission to install the barrier was denied an alternative means of resolving the subsidence issue will be required possibly an engineering solution. The costs associated with such a solution have yet to be determined but if implemented the associated costs may form the basis of a compensation claim under Regulation 24 of the Town and Country Planning (Tree Preservation) (England) Regulations 2012.

Received
4 December 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
1
Ward
Hooley, Merstham And Netherne
  1. Received4 Dec
  2. Validated4 Dec
  3. Consult.28 Dec
  4. Target8 Jan
  5. Decided8 Jan

Decided in 35 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a heritage application at Bartonbury Rockshaw Road Merstham Surrey RH1 3BZ. Reigate has handled 291 applications of this type. This one was decided in 35 days, 3 weeks quicker than Reigate's typical decision time. The site is in the Rockshaw Road, Merstham conservation area. There have been 3 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 127 applications across Hooley, Merstham And Netherne. We hold 1,921 applications in total for the RH1 postcode area.

99% of heritage applications at Reigate and Banstead Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
RH1 3BZ
Application type
Conservation Area Notice
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
4 December 2023
Consultation expiry
28 December 2023
Consultation start
4 December 2023
Consultation end
28 December 2023
Target decision date
8 January 2024

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Wren's Cottage Charing Heath Rd Ashford TN27 0AU

Planning decision

Statutory period
35 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-12612523
Documents
9
Constraints
23

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: Rockshaw Road, Merstham
  • Green belt: Reigate and Banstead
  • 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 (20)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, 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: Reigate

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