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The Chestnuts Chestnut Drive Egham Surrey TW20 0BQ

RU.24/1529ConditionsApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 7 January 2025

Council decision: Tree- Grant works to tree covered by TPO

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

Proposal

Ref. Species Observations Recommendations T164 Quercus robur Slight lean to south full extensive crown laurel undergrowth Crown clean/Crown Thin 10% T165 Quercus robur Slight lean to south biased to south Crown clean/Crown Thin 10% T166 Acer platanoides Extensive dead wood in lower and middle third Crown clean/Crown Thin 15% T167 Chamaecyparis lawsoniana Extensive dead wood in lower and middle third Crown clean/Crown thin 10% T168 Fagus sylvatica Leans and biased to south east full canopy. Crown clean/Crown Thin 10% T170 Crataegus monogyna Dead ivy clad Fell/Remove stump T171 Ilex aquifolium In poor condition better felled Fell/Remove stump T172 Taxus baccata Double stemmed at 2.5m, much dead wood in crown, and leans to the west. Fell/Remove stump T185 Fagus sylvatica Prune out dead top branches at crown top, prune out dead and weak crossing branches throughout crown to provide 20% crown thin to reduce crown sail weight. Reduce extending branches to north by up to 3 metres and reduce branches to east over access road by up to 2.5metres. Mulch base to 60mm depth with medium garden bark mulch in 3mmetres ring, remove redundent concrete posts and abandoned steel stachion structures. T188 Quercus robur Several dead and weak crossing branches. Ivy creeping up trunk. Prune out dead, crossing, and weak branches to provide 10% crown thin. Remove Ivy groewht creeping up trunk T189 Taxus baccata Crowded crown with several crossing branches ivy on trunk Crown clean/Crown Thin 15% T190 Taxus baccata Leaning on bank severely pruned in past dense foliage. Crown clean/Crown Thin 15% T192 Quercus robur Crown biased to west Suppressed to east by Beech dead wood in lower crown Crown clean/Crown Thin 10%

Submitted
29 November 2024
  1. Received29 Nov
  2. Validated29 Nov
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided7 Jan

Decided in 39 days (council typically 42)

About this application

This is an application to discharge conditions at The Chestnuts Chestnut Drive Egham Surrey TW20 0BQ. Runnymede has handled 701 applications of this type. This one was decided in 39 days, 3 days quicker than Runnymede's typical decision time. The site is in 1 listed building nearby. There have been 6 other applications at this address. We hold 1,539 applications in total for the TW20 postcode area.

86% of conditions applications at Runnymede Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 6 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
TW20 0BQ
Application type
Conditions
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
29 November 2024

Additional information

Documents
6

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 (21)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, 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.

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