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Compass House, Road Between Cross Lane And Axbridge Bypass, Townsend, Axbridge, Somerset, BS26 2AJ

02/23/00003Works to Trees in Conservation AreaApproved

Approved on 18 March 2023

Council decision: Granted PermissionDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Fell 2No. Beech (G1). Crown reduce height/spread of Cherry (T2) by up to 1.5m.

Submitted
13 February 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Council
Sedgemoor
  1. Received13 Feb
  2. Validated13 Feb
  3. Consult.
  4. Target18 Mar
  5. Decided18 Mar

Decided in 33 days (council typically 35)

About this application

This is a tree application at Compass House, Road Between Cross Lane And Axbridge Bypass, Townsend, Axbridge, Somerset, BS26 2AJ. Sedgemoor has handled 297 applications of this type. This one was decided in 33 days. The site is in the Axbridge conservation area. There have been 3 other applications at this address. We hold 814 applications in total for the BS26 postcode area.

100% of trees applications at Sedgemoor were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 5 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
BS26 2AJ
Application type
Works to Trees in Conservation Area
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Axbridge

Planning application dates

Date validated
13 February 2023
Consultation start
13 February 2023
Target decision date
18 March 2023

Applicant and agent

Agent address
58 Westbury Crescent Weston-super-Mare BS23 4RG

Planning decision

Statutory period
33 days

Additional information

Documents
5

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Axbridge
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

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, listed buildings, 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

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© 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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