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St Peters Church Green Lane Formby L37 7DL

DC/2025/01482Works to a tree in a Conservation AreaApproved

Approved on 11 November 2025

Council decision: ApproveDelegated (officer decision)

Site boundary (council red line)

Proposal

Section 211 Notice of intent to carry out tree works to remove, 3No. trees (T23,T24,T25,) and prune 6No. trees (T9,T15,T16,T17,T21,G21) (lies within the Green Lane Conservation Area)

Received
1 October 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Ravenmeols Ward
  1. Received1 Oct
  2. Validated1 Oct
  3. Consult.25 Oct
  4. Target
  5. Decided11 Nov

Decided in 41 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at St Peters Church Green Lane Formby L37 7DL. Sefton has handled 300 applications of this type. This one was decided in 41 days, 2 weeks quicker than Sefton's typical decision time. The site is in the Green Lane conservation area, with 2 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 50 applications across Ravenmeols Ward. We hold 814 applications in total for the L37 postcode area.

92% of trees applications at Sefton Metropolitan Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
L37 7DL
Application type
Works to a tree in a Conservation Area
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Formby Parish Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
1 October 2025
Consultation expiry
25 October 2025
Consultation end
25 October 2025

Additional information

Documents
7

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Green Lane Conservation AreaPart of the site
  • Listed building: Grade II: Church of St PeterOn this site · +1 more
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (22)

flood storage areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders, 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.

Source: Sefton

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