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21 Station Road, Shapwick, Bridgwater, Somerset, TA7 9NJ

43/25/00001Works to Trees in Conservation AreaApproved

Approved on 19 April 2025

Council decision: Granted PermissionDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Crown lift 3No. Yews (T42, T43, T44) to 5m above ground level overhanging road by removal/reduction of secondary growth. Crown lift remaining crown to 2.5m above ground level. Reduce extended low limbs overhanging car park to east by up to 3m. Removal of deadwood, removal of damaged/hanging branches throughout and removal of surrounding vegetation to ground level (elder etc at base) situated along the boundary of car park and Station Road at Dovecote School.

Submitted
14 February 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Council
Sedgemoor
  1. Received14 Feb
  2. Validated14 Feb
  3. Consult.
  4. Target19 Apr
  5. Decided19 Apr

Decided in 64 days (council typically 35)

About this application

This is a tree application at 21 Station Road, Shapwick, Bridgwater, Somerset, TA7 9NJ. Sedgemoor has handled 297 applications of this type. This one was decided in 64 days, 4 weeks longer than Sedgemoor's typical decision time. The site is in the Shapwick conservation area, with 6 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. We hold 1,073 applications in total for the TA7 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
TA7 9NJ
Application type
Works to Trees in Conservation Area
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Shapwick

Planning application dates

Date validated
14 February 2025
Consultation start
17 February 2025
Target decision date
19 April 2025

Planning decision

Statutory period
64 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 (19)

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, 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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