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Pen Y Bryn Ford Shrewsbury Shropshire SY5 9LZ

20/04479/TCAWorks to Trees - Conservation AreaApproved

Approved on 1 December 2020

Council decision: Consent by Right - TreesDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Mature Lime - Crown lift to 1.8m above front wall and crown reduce remainder of tree by 1-2 m; Yew - trim wings by 1-2m; Chestnut - crown reduce by 2m, minor crown lift by 1m and slight crown thin; Acacia - (encompassed by Chestnut) trim lightly to shape once exposed; Box at gate- crown reduce by 1m within Ford Conservation Area

Received
29 October 2020
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
2
Ward
Longden
  1. Received29 Oct
  2. Validated29 Oct
  3. Consult.23 Nov
  4. Target10 Dec
  5. Decided1 Dec

Decided in 33 days (council typically 42)

About this application

This is a tree application at Pen Y Bryn Ford Shrewsbury Shropshire SY5 9LZ. Shropshire has handled 2,370 applications of this type. This one was decided in 33 days, 9 days quicker than Shropshire's typical decision time. The site is in the Ford conservation area. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 11 applications across Longden. We hold 1,328 applications in total for the SY5 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
SY5 9LZ
Application type
Works to Trees - Conservation Area
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Ford

Planning application dates

Date validated
29 October 2020
Consultation expiry
23 November 2020
Consultation end
23 November 2020
Target decision date
10 December 2020
Permission expires
1 December 2022

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Mr Mark Hollings Hawthorn Cottage Lower Common Longden Shrewsbury SY5 8HF

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

Documents
2

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • Conservation area: Ford
  • 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

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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