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37 Birchfield Drive Rochdale OL11 4NY

23/00314/WTTPOWorks to Trees-TPOApproved

Approved on 8 September 2023

Council decision: Grant subject to conditionsDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Application for Works to trees covered by TPO036 T1, T2 and T3 (Beech Trees) - Removal of branches up to 4"

Received
28 March 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Bamford
Agent
Special Branch Treesurgeons Ltd
  1. Received28 Mar
  2. Validated30 Mar
  3. Consult.22 Aug
  4. Target4 May
  5. Decided8 Sep

Decided in 162 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at 37 Birchfield Drive Rochdale OL11 4NY. Rochdale has handled 104 applications of this type. This one was decided in 164 days, 15 weeks longer 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 South Township

Planning application dates

Date validated
30 March 2023
Consultation expiry
22 August 2023
Consultation start
1 August 2023
Consultation end
22 August 2023
Last date for comments
22 August 2023
Target decision date
4 May 2023
Permission expires
8 September 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent
Special Branch Treesurgeons Ltd
Agent address
Top Oth Meadow Farm Meadowhead Lane Norden Rochdale OL11 5UL

Planning decision

Statutory period
35 days

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
2

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • 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.

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: Rochdale

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