148 & 149 Abbey Foregate Shrewsbury Shropshire SY2 6AP
Approved on 3 August 2017
Council decision: No Objection
Proposal
To cut back to the boundary fence all encroaching shrubs/ivy/trees within Abbey Foregate Conservation Area
- Received
- 5 July 2017
- Council
- Shropshire Council
- Ward
- Abbey
- ReceivedReceived5 Jul
- ValidatedValidated5 Jul
- Consult.Consultation20 Jul
- TargetTarget Date16 Aug
- DecidedDecided3 Aug
Decided in 29 days (council typically 42)
About this application
This is a tree application at 148 & 149 Abbey Foregate Shrewsbury Shropshire SY2 6AP. Shropshire has handled 2,370 applications of this type. This one was decided in 29 days, 13 days quicker than Shropshire's typical decision time. The site is in the Shrewsbury conservation area, with 8 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded 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 6AP
- Application type
- Works to Trees - Conservation Area
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Shrewsbury Town Council
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 5 July 2017
- Consultation expiry
- 25 July 2017
- Consultation end
- 20 July 2017
- Neighbour consultation end
- 20 July 2017
- Target decision date
- 16 August 2017
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- Nick Watkins 28 Cottages Morville Bridgnorth Shropshire WV16 5NB
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 42 days
Publicity
- Site notice start
- 11 July 2017
- Site notice end
- 25 July 2017
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- Conservation area: Shrewsbury
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
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 (21)
flood storage areas, listed buildings, 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
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© 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.
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© 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: Shropshire
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