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New Zealand House 160 - 162 Abbey Foregate Shrewsbury Shropshire SY2 6AL

17/01347/TCAWorks to Trees - Conservation AreaWithdrawn

Withdrawn on 25 April 2017

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Proposal

To fell one Norway Maple within Shrewsbury Conservation Area

Received
21 March 2017
Public comments
8
Ward
Abbey
  1. Received21 Mar
  2. Validated21 Mar
  3. Consult.
  4. Target2 May
  5. Decided25 Apr

Decided in 35 days (council typically 42)

About this application

This is a tree application at New Zealand House 160 - 162 Abbey Foregate Shrewsbury Shropshire SY2 6AL. Shropshire has handled 2,370 applications of this type. It was withdrawn 35 days after it was submitted, before a decision was made. The site is in the Shrewsbury conservation area, with 8 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 20 applications across Abbey. We hold 554 applications in total for the SY2 postcode area.

99% of trees applications at Shropshire Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 6 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
SY2 6AL
Application type
Works to Trees - Conservation Area
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Shrewsbury Town Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
21 March 2017
Consultation expiry
11 April 2017
Target decision date
2 May 2017

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Mr Ken Benbow The Lodge Lee Brockhurst Shrewsbury Shropshire SY4 5SA

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Publicity

Site notice start
28 March 2017
Site notice end
11 April 2017

Additional information

Documents
2

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)Part of the site
  • Conservation area: Shrewsbury
  • Listed building: Grade II: MonklandsOn or next to this site
  • Brownfield land register: New Zealand House, Abbey ForegateRegister site at or near this address

Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions. Ask the council if these matter.

Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.

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, 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 and heritage coasts.

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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Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Shropshire

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