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Old Post Office Meriden Road Berkswell Solihull CV7 7BE

PL/2025/01847/TCATrees in Conservation AreaApproved

Approved on 31 October 2025

Delegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Reduce by 2 to 3m 2 No. silver birch trees at front of house, sited next to pavement and zebra crossing -The trees have been cut previously and would like to carry out maintenance works to reduce size and to stop forks failing. Reduce by 2 to 3m 1 No. silver birch tree at back of house - The trees have been cut previously and would like to carry out maintenance works to reduce to stop forks failing. 10% reduction of the crown of 1 No. apple tree at back of house and remove dead wood.

Received
1 October 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Meriden
  1. Received1 Oct
  2. Validated1 Oct
  3. Consult.29 Oct
  4. Target12 Nov
  5. Decided31 Oct

Decided in 30 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at Old Post Office Meriden Road Berkswell Solihull CV7 7BE. Solihull has handled 1,044 applications of this type. This one was decided in 30 days, 4 weeks 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 17 applications across Meriden. We hold 1,121 applications in total for the CV7 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
CV7 7BE
Application type
Trees in Conservation Area
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Berkswell Parish Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
1 October 2025
Consultation expiry
29 October 2025
Consultation start
7 October 2025
Consultation end
29 October 2025
Neighbour consultation start
7 October 2025
Neighbour consultation end
29 October 2025
Last date for comments
29 October 2025
Target decision date
12 November 2025
Permission expires
31 October 2027

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14374985
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.

  • 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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