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St James Church St James Terrace Selby YO8 4HL

ZG2024/1042/TPOTree Preservation OrderApproved

Approved on 21 November 2024

Council decision: PermittedDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Application for consent to crown lift to a maximum of 5.2m above ground level removing secondary branch work creating no pruning wounds in excess of 25mm in diameter and lateral reduction of the branches towards the church to create a clearance not in excess of 3m to 1No Horse Chestnut tree (T3) covered by TPO 13/1986 in the conservation area

Received
1 October 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
2
Council
Selby
Ward
Selby East
  1. Received1 Oct
  2. Validated1 Oct
  3. Consult.30 Oct
  4. Target26 Nov
  5. Decided21 Nov

Decided in 51 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at St James Church St James Terrace Selby YO8 4HL. Selby has handled 606 applications of this type. This one was decided in 51 days, 5 days quicker than Selby's typical decision time. The site is in the Selby Town conservation area, with 4 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 21 applications across Selby East. We hold 2,343 applications in total for the YO8 postcode area.

80% of trees applications at Selby were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
YO8 4HL
Application type
Tree Preservation Order
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Selby Town Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
1 October 2024
Consultation expiry
12 November 2024
Consultation start
9 October 2024
Consultation end
30 October 2024
Last date for comments
13 November 2024
Target decision date
26 November 2024
Permission expires
21 November 2026

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
22 October 2024
Site notice end
12 November 2024

Additional information

Constraints
31

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • Flood zone 2: Medium probability (rivers and sea)
  • Conservation area: Selby Town
  • Listed building: Grade II: Church of St JamesOn or next to this site

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

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: Selby

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