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Aspen Court, Wembdon Road, Bridgwater, Somerset, TA6 7EN

08/25/00024Works to Trees in Conservation AreaApproved

Approved on 8 March 2025

Council decision: Granted PermissionDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Remove smaller low branches of 3' diameter or below up to 10m above ground level over garden on southern side, reduce upright regrowth stems from pollard points over garden by 50% (6-7m) and remove dead branches over garden of 1No. London Plane (T1) located on boundary of Aspen Court and 39 Northfield.

Submitted
4 February 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Council
Sedgemoor
  1. Received4 Feb
  2. Validated4 Feb
  3. Consult.
  4. Target8 Mar
  5. Decided8 Mar

Decided in 32 days (council typically 35)

About this application

This is a tree application at Aspen Court, Wembdon Road, Bridgwater, Somerset, TA6 7EN. Sedgemoor has handled 297 applications of this type. This one was decided in 32 days, 3 days quicker than Sedgemoor's typical decision time. The site is in the Bridgwater Northfield conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded 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 7EN
Application type
Works to Trees in Conservation Area
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Bridgwater

Planning application dates

Date validated
4 February 2025
Consultation start
6 February 2025
Target decision date
8 March 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Wee Tree Nurseries West Buckland Wellington Somerset TA21 9LD

Planning decision

Statutory period
32 days

Additional information

Documents
4

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Bridgwater Northfield
  • 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.

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