The Old Vergers Cottage Church Hill Merstham Surrey RH1 3BJ
Proposal
T1 Sycamore - reduce lateral branches into the garden by 3.5 metres
- Received
- 26 November 2024
- Decided
- 20 January 2025 · Approved
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Ward
- Hooley, Merstham And Netherne
- ReceivedSubmitted26 Nov
- ValidatedValidated26 Nov
- Consult.Consultation14 Jan
- TargetTarget Date31 Dec
- DecidedDecided20 Jan
Decided in 55 days (council typically 56)
This is a heritage application at The Old Vergers Cottage Church Hill Merstham Surrey RH1 3BJ. Reigate has handled 291 applications of this type and approves nearly all of them, typically deciding them in 35 days. This one was decided in 55 days, 3 weeks longer than Reigate's median. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 105 applications across Hooley, Merstham And Netherne. We hold 1,874 applications in total for the RH1 postcode area.
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Planning constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Green belt: Reigate and Banstead
- National Landscape (AONB): Surrey HillsNext to the site
- 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, conservation 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, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves, heritage coasts and brownfield registers.
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