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St Mary's Churchyard Church Street Chard Somerset TA20 2DP

15/01693/TCATree(s) in Conservation AreaApproved

Approved on 7 May 2015

Council decision: Application Permitted

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Application to carry out works to 2 No. Copper Beech trees and 1 No. Maple tree within a conservation area (GR 332280/108221)

Received
14 April 2015
Council
South Somerset
Ward
CHARD HOLYROOD
  1. Received14 Apr
  2. Validated14 Apr
  3. Consult.
  4. Target26 May
  5. Decided7 May

Decided in 23 days (council typically 42)

About this application

This is a tree application at St Mary's Churchyard Church Street Chard Somerset TA20 2DP. South Somerset has handled 1,945 applications of this type. This one was decided in 23 days, 3 weeks quicker than South Somerset's typical decision time. The site is in the Chard conservation area, with 20 listed buildings nearby. There have been 2 other applications at this address. We hold 1,867 applications in total for the TA20 postcode area.

96% of trees applications at South Somerset were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 6 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
TA20 2DP
Application type
Tree(s) in Conservation Area
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Chard

Planning application dates

Date validated
14 April 2015
Target decision date
26 May 2015

Applicant and agent

Agent address
19 Langdon Close Chard TA20 1DP

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
3

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions and tree preservation orders. Ask the council if these matter.

Also checked, none recorded (19)

flood storage areas, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, Heritage at Risk entries, 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

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© 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.

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