21 Birchfield Drive Rochdale OL11 4NY
Approved on 12 March 2015
Council decision: Grant subject to conditionsDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Application to crown lift up to 4m and thin by 25%, a Sycamore tree located within G2 of Tree Preservation Order 036.
- Received
- 22 January 2015
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Ward
- Bamford
- Agent
- Special Branch Tree Surgeons Ltd
- ReceivedReceived22 Jan
- ValidatedValidated30 Jan
- Consult.Consultation25 Feb
- TargetTarget Date6 Mar
- DecidedDecided12 Mar
Decided in 41 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a tree application at 21 Birchfield Drive Rochdale OL11 4NY. Rochdale has handled 104 applications of this type. This one was decided in 49 days, 7 days quicker than Rochdale's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 36 applications across Bamford. We hold 670 applications in total for the OL11 postcode area.
97% of trees applications at Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).
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Application details
- Postcode
- OL11 4NY
- Application type
- Works to Trees-TPO
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Rochdale Township
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 30 January 2015
- Consultation expiry
- 25 February 2015
- Consultation start
- 4 February 2015
- Consultation end
- 25 February 2015
- Target decision date
- 6 March 2015
- Permission expires
- 12 March 2017
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Special Branch Tree Surgeons Ltd
- Agent address
- Top Oth Meadow Farm Meadowhead Lane Norden Rochdale OL11 5UL
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 35 days
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Brownfield land register: High Birch School, Bolton Rd, RochdaleRegister site at or near this address
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Not published by this council, so not checked: tree preservation orders. Ask the council if these matter.
Also checked, none recorded (22)
flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, Article 4 directions, 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 and heritage coasts.
A guide only, from official open data; it is not a planning search. Flood zones cover rivers and sea, not surface water.
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