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Oldfield House Barston Lane Barston Solihull B92 0JU

PL/2024/01618/TCATrees in Conservation AreaApproved

Approved on 16 September 2024

Delegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Crown reduction of yew tree in front garden by approximately 1m to take back to previous reduction point and lower branches, including neighbour's side to give balanced appearance.

Received
2 August 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Bickenhill
  1. Received2 Aug
  2. Validated2 Aug
  3. Consult.13 Sep
  4. Target13 Sep
  5. Decided16 Sep

Decided in 45 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at Oldfield House Barston Lane Barston Solihull B92 0JU. Solihull has handled 1,044 applications of this type. This one was decided in 45 days, 11 days quicker than Solihull's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area, with 5 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 25 applications across Bickenhill. 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 0JU
Application type
Trees in Conservation Area
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Barston Parish Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
2 August 2024
Consultation expiry
13 September 2024
Consultation start
22 August 2024
Consultation end
13 September 2024
Neighbour consultation start
22 August 2024
Neighbour consultation end
13 September 2024
Last date for comments
13 September 2024
Target decision date
13 September 2024
Permission expires
16 September 2026

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

Documents
3

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Green belt: Solihull
  • 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 (20)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, 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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