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78A St. Bernards Road Olton Solihull B92 7BP

PL/2024/00741/TCATrees in Conservation AreaApproved

Approved on 1 July 2024

Delegated (officer decision)

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Fell Leyland cypress tree 8, and 2 No. Leyland cypress trees 9. Hazel tree 10 crown lift of 2 m above hedge height, overhanging branches pruned to boundary line. Leyland cypress tree 11 crown reduction of 4.5m (20%), crown lift of 3m above hedge height and overhanging branches pruned to boundary line. Yew tree 12 crown lift of 2m above hedge height, remove first primary branch and previously poorly pruned stumps at low level. Evergreen high hedge 13 reduced to the height of the adjacent boundary hedge. Hazel tree 16 crown lift 2m above hedge height, overhanging branches pruned to boundary line.

Received
18 April 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Olton
  1. Received18 Apr
  2. Validated26 Apr
  3. Consult.23 May
  4. Target7 Jun
  5. Decided1 Jul

Decided in 66 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at 78A St. Bernards Road Olton Solihull B92 7BP. Solihull has handled 1,044 applications of this type. This one was decided in 74 days, 3 weeks longer than Solihull's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area, with 2 listed buildings nearby. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 131 applications across Olton. We hold 2,282 applications in total for the B92 postcode area.

93% of trees applications at Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
B92 7BP
Application type
Trees in Conservation Area
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Non-Civil Parish Or Community

Planning application dates

Date validated
26 April 2024
Consultation expiry
31 May 2024
Consultation start
1 May 2024
Consultation end
23 May 2024
Neighbour consultation start
1 May 2024
Neighbour consultation end
23 May 2024
Last date for comments
31 May 2024
Target decision date
7 June 2024
Permission expires
1 July 2026

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Publicity

Site notice start
9 May 2024
Site notice end
31 May 2024

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-12992186
Documents
4

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Not published by this council, so not checked: conservation areas and 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: Solihull

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