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Dower House 31 Church Road Bitton South Gloucestershire BS30 6LJ

P24/00799/TREWorks to TreesApproved

Approved on 1 May 2024

Council decision: Approve with ConditionsDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Works to 1no. Black Locust (Robinia pseudoacacia) to reduce the end weight of all the branches over the road by 10% (up to 1.5m) and to reduce the second lowest branch growing out towards the road (approximately 0.4m diameter) to a suitable point approximately 3m from the stem covered by Tree Preservation Order (SG/TR11/72) dated 1972.

Received
27 March 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Bitton And Oldland Common
  1. Received27 Mar
  2. Validated8 Apr
  3. Consult.29 Apr
  4. Target3 Jun
  5. Decided1 May

Decided in 23 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at Dower House 31 Church Road Bitton South Gloucestershire BS30 6LJ. South Gloucestershire has handled 890 applications of this type. This one was decided in 35 days, 3 weeks quicker than South Gloucestershire's typical decision time. The site is in the Bitton conservation area, with 8 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 86 applications across Bitton And Oldland Common. We hold 2,774 applications in total for the BS30 postcode area.

94% of trees applications at South Gloucestershire Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
BS30 6LJ
Application type
Works to Trees
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Bitton Parish Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
8 April 2024
Last date for comments
29 April 2024
Target decision date
3 June 2024

Applicant and agent

Agent address
1st Floor 5 Pritchard Street Bristol BS2 8RH

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-12931315
Documents
8
Constraints
56

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Bitton Conservation Area
  • Listed building: Grade II: The Dower HouseOn this site · +2 more
  • Tree Preservation Order: Ref 0049Part of the site · +3 more
  • Green belt: South GloucestershirePart of the site
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (20)

flood storage areas, Article 4 directions, 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: South Gloucestershire

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