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Hartlands Rest Home Whitehall Street Shrewsbury Shropshire SY2 5AD

23/02906/TCAWorks to Trees - Conservation AreaApproved

Approved on 31 July 2023

Council decision: Consent by Right - Trees

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Crown lift by approx. 2m by removing low secondary branches, remove deadwood and rubbing branches and reduce overlong side branches by approx. 1-2m from 1no. Tree of Heaven within Shrewsbury Conservation Area (Amended 28.07.2023)

Received
5 July 2023
Public comments
2
Ward
Abbey
Agent
Gavin Tree Specialists Ltd
  1. Received5 Jul
  2. Validated5 Jul
  3. Consult.28 Jul
  4. Target16 Aug
  5. Decided31 Jul

Decided in 26 days (council typically 42)

About this application

This is a tree application at Hartlands Rest Home Whitehall Street Shrewsbury Shropshire SY2 5AD. Shropshire has handled 2,370 applications of this type. This one was decided in 26 days, 2 weeks quicker than Shropshire's typical decision time. The site is in the Shrewsbury conservation area, with 6 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 5AD
Application type
Works to Trees - Conservation Area
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Shrewsbury Town Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
5 July 2023
Consultation expiry
28 July 2023
Consultation end
28 July 2023
Target decision date
16 August 2023
Permission expires
31 July 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent
Gavin Tree Specialists Ltd
Agent address
13 Mawley Close Shrewsbury Shropshire SY2 6HT

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Publicity

Site notice start
8 July 2023
Site notice end
22 July 2023

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-12283719
Documents
2

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Shrewsbury
  • Listed building: Grade II: 39-47, Whitehall StreetOn or next to this site · +1 more
  • Brownfield land register: Hartlands Rest Home, Whitehall Street, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, SY2 5ADRegister site at or near this address
  • 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 (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.

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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