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The Vicarage St Georges Street Shrewsbury SY3 8QA

17/03155/TCAWorks to Trees - Conservation AreaApproved

Approved on 3 August 2017

Council decision: No ObjectionDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Works to 1No Silver Birch Tree (T1) selective reduction of longer branches and reduction of up to 3m (on the longest branches); fell 1No Wild Cherry Tree (T2) and 1No Walnut Tree (T3) a 50% crown reduction (reducing height and spread)within Shrewsbury Conservation Area

Received
30 June 2017
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
1
Ward
Porthill
  1. Received30 Jun
  2. Validated30 Jun
  3. Consult.
  4. Target11 Aug
  5. Decided3 Aug

Decided in 34 days (council typically 42)

About this application

This is a tree application at The Vicarage St Georges Street Shrewsbury SY3 8QA. Shropshire has handled 2,370 applications of this type. This one was decided in 34 days, 8 days quicker than Shropshire's typical decision time. The site is in the Shrewsbury conservation area, with 20 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 19 applications across Porthill. We hold 1,165 applications in total for the SY3 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
SY3 8QA
Application type
Works to Trees - Conservation Area
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Shrewsbury Town Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
30 June 2017
Consultation expiry
1 August 2017
Target decision date
11 August 2017

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Publicity

Site notice start
11 July 2017
Site notice end
1 August 2017

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-06189606
Documents
4

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

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 (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: Shropshire

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