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St Lawrence's Church Church Lane Meriden Solihull

PL/2025/01036/TCATrees in Conservation AreaApproved

Approved on 1 July 2025

Delegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Yew tree T1 - Remove deadwood and prune lateral limbs, by approximately 1-2m, lower east side of the crown in order to clear the church building by 2m.

Received
21 May 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Meriden
Agent
Midland Forestry ltd
  1. Received21 May
  2. Validated21 May
  3. Consult.1 Jul
  4. Target2 Jul
  5. Decided1 Jul

Decided in 41 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at St Lawrence's Church Church Lane Meriden Solihull. Solihull has handled 1,044 applications of this type. This one was decided in 41 days, 2 weeks quicker than Solihull's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 17 applications across Meriden.

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

Application type
Trees in Conservation Area
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Meriden Parish Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
21 May 2025
Consultation expiry
1 July 2025
Consultation start
9 June 2025
Consultation end
1 July 2025
Last date for comments
1 July 2025
Target decision date
2 July 2025
Permission expires
1 July 2027

Applicant and agent

Agent
Midland Forestry ltd
Agent address
rear of eastcote hall farm barston lane hampton in arden solihull B92 0HR United Kingdom

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14036403
Documents
3

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.

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