51 Birchfield Drive Rochdale OL11 4NY
Approved on 9 July 2020
Council decision: Grant subject to conditionsDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Removal of Sycamore tree (T5) covered by Tree Preservation Order No. 036
- Received
- 25 May 2020
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Ward
- Bamford
- Agent
- Special Branch Treesurgeons Ltd
- ReceivedReceived25 May
- ValidatedValidated25 May
- Consult.Consultation1 Jul
- TargetTarget Date29 Jun
- DecidedDecided9 Jul
Decided in 45 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a tree application at 51 Birchfield Drive Rochdale OL11 4NY. Rochdale has handled 104 applications of this type. This one was decided in 45 days, 11 days quicker than Rochdale's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application 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
- 25 May 2020
- Consultation expiry
- 1 July 2020
- Consultation start
- 10 June 2020
- Consultation end
- 1 July 2020
- Last date for comments
- 1 July 2020
- Target decision date
- 29 June 2020
- Permission expires
- 9 July 2022
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Special Branch Treesurgeons Ltd
- Agent address
- Special Branch Treesurgeons Ltd 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.
- 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 (23)
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, 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.
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Planning history at this site
2 other applications at this property, newest first.
Source: Rochdale
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