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23 Bishop Street Shrewsbury Shropshire SY2 5HB

24/02317/TCAWorks to Trees - Conservation AreaApproved

Approved on 9 July 2024

Council decision: Consent by Right - Trees

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

To remove 1no. Sorbus (T1) and 3no. Cupressus Sempervirens (T2-4) within Shrewsbury Conservation Area

Received
14 June 2024
Ward
Abbey
  1. Received14 Jun
  2. Validated14 Jun
  3. Consult.
  4. Target26 Jul
  5. Decided9 Jul

Decided in 25 days (council typically 42)

About this application

This is a tree application at 23 Bishop Street Shrewsbury Shropshire SY2 5HB. Shropshire has handled 2,370 applications of this type. This one was decided in 25 days, 2 weeks quicker than Shropshire's typical decision time. The site is in the Shrewsbury conservation area. 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 5HB
Application type
Works to Trees - Conservation Area
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Shrewsbury Town Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
14 June 2024
Consultation expiry
5 July 2024
Target decision date
26 July 2024
Permission expires
9 July 2026

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Publicity

Site notice start
21 June 2024
Site notice end
5 July 2024

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13151424
Documents
6

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • 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.

© 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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