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161 St. Bernards Road Olton Solihull B92 7DH

PL/2025/01398/TCATrees in Conservation AreaApproved

Approved on 1 September 2025

Delegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Fell and remove 3 No. sycamore, trees in the front garden adjoining the properties 161/159 St Bernards Road. These saplings have grown over the last 15 years and have potentially caused root damage to front sewage drains.

Received
16 July 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Olton
  1. Received16 Jul
  2. Validated16 Jul
  3. Consult.19 Aug
  4. Target27 Aug
  5. Decided1 Sep

Decided in 47 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at 161 St. Bernards Road Olton Solihull B92 7DH. Solihull has handled 1,044 applications of this type. This one was decided in 47 days, 9 days quicker than Solihull's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 129 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 7DH
Application type
Trees in Conservation Area
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Non-Civil Parish Or Community

Planning application dates

Date validated
16 July 2025
Consultation expiry
19 August 2025
Consultation start
28 July 2025
Consultation end
19 August 2025
Neighbour consultation start
28 July 2025
Neighbour consultation end
19 August 2025
Last date for comments
19 August 2025
Target decision date
27 August 2025
Permission expires
1 September 2027

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14181878
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.

Source: Solihull

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