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St Georges Church St Georges Street Shrewsbury SY3 8QA

17/03596/TPOWorks to TreesApproved

Approved on 15 September 2017

Council decision: Grant PermissionDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Reduce crown by maximum 15% to reduce sail area and lessen leaf drop of 1No. Silver Birch tree protected by Shropshire Council (Land at St Georges Church, St Georges Street, Shrewsbury) TPO 2014

Received
24 July 2017
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
1
Ward
Porthill
  1. Received24 Jul
  2. Validated24 Jul
  3. Consult.15 Aug
  4. Target18 Sep
  5. Decided15 Sep

Decided in 53 days (council typically 42)

About this application

This is a tree application at St Georges Church St Georges Street Shrewsbury SY3 8QA. Shropshire has handled 2,370 applications of this type. This one was decided in 53 days, 11 days longer than Shropshire's typical decision time. The site is in the Shrewsbury conservation area, with 19 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
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Shrewsbury Town Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
24 July 2017
Consultation expiry
22 August 2017
Consultation end
15 August 2017
Neighbour consultation end
15 August 2017
Target decision date
18 September 2017
Permission expires
15 September 2019

Applicant and agent

Agent address
19 Benyon Street Shrewsbury SY1 2JQ

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
1 August 2017
Site notice end
22 August 2017

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-06238422
Documents
5

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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