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St John The Baptist Church, Blake Place, Bridgwater, Somerset, TA6 5BA

08/23/00236Works to Trees in Conservation AreaApproved

Approved on 21 May 2023

Council decision: Granted PermissionDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Fell 1No. London Plane (T1) and 2No. Ash (G1). Crown reduce extended low limbs of Oak (T2) by 2m over highway. Crown lift Lime (T3) to provide 5.2m highway clearance all round. Repollard Lime (T4) back to previous pruning points.

Submitted
16 May 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Council
Sedgemoor
  1. Received16 May
  2. Validated16 May
  3. Consult.
  4. Target21 May
  5. Decided21 May

Decided in 5 days (council typically 35)

About this application

This is a tree application at St John The Baptist Church, Blake Place, Bridgwater, Somerset, TA6 5BA. Sedgemoor has handled 297 applications of this type. This one was decided in 5 days, 4 weeks quicker than Sedgemoor's typical decision time. The site is in the Bridgwater St John's conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. We hold 1,334 applications in total for the TA6 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
TA6 5BA
Application type
Works to Trees in Conservation Area
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Bridgwater

Planning application dates

Date validated
16 May 2023
Consultation start
17 May 2023
Target decision date
21 May 2023

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Unit 15 Parrett Way Colley Lane Industrial Estate Bridgwater TA6 5LB

Planning decision

Statutory period
5 days

Additional information

Documents
5

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

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 (20)

flood storage 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

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© 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.

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