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Land to the rear of Sawley Abbey Sawley Road Sawley BB7 4LE

38184Application for tree works in a conservation areaApproved

Approved on 23 February 2026

Council decision: APPROVED WITH CONDITIONS

Proposal

8 Hawthorn tree/bushes to be felled to allow for the installation of a new fence.

Received
6 February 2026
  1. Received6 Feb
  2. Validated10 Feb
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided23 Feb

Decided in 13 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at Land to the rear of Sawley Abbey Sawley Road Sawley BB7 4LE. Ribble Valley has handled 117 applications of this type. This one was decided in 17 days, 6 weeks quicker than Ribble Valley's typical decision time. The site is in the Sawley conservation area, with 2 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 1,415 applications in total for the BB7 postcode area.

100% of trees applications at Ribble Valley Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
BB7 4LE
Application type
Application for tree works in a conservation area
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
10 February 2026
Committee meeting
23 February 2026

Additional information

Documents
4

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

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 (19)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, green belt, 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.

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: Ribble Valley

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