Bracken Lodge Farm Castlemain Buckland St Mary Chard Somerset TA20 3LA

20/02815/HDGHedgerowsApproved

Approved on 15 October 2020

Council decision: Application PermittedDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Application to Remove a 3m section of hedgerow and a 5m hedgerow within a field to allow for open cut installation of a replacement water main.

Received: 5 October 2020
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Council: South Somerset
Ward: BLACKDOWN, TATWORTH & FORTON

ReceivedReceived5 Oct
ValidatedValidated5 Oct
Consult.Consultation
TargetTarget Date16 Nov
DecidedDecided15 Oct

Decided in 10 days (council typically 42)

About this application

This is a tree application at Bracken Lodge Farm Castlemain Buckland St Mary Chard Somerset TA20 3LA. South Somerset has handled 1,945 applications of this type. This one was decided in 10 days, 5 weeks quicker than South Somerset's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded 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 3LA
Application type: Hedgerows
Scale / size: Small
Parish: Buckland St Mary

Planning application dates

Date validated: 5 October 2020
Target decision date: 16 November 2020

Planning decision

Statutory period: 42 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID: PP-09121441
Comments: 0
Documents: 9

Site constraints

Checking the site

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Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

Nutrient neutrality catchment: River Axe SACApplies to new homes and overnight accommodation
National Landscape (AONB): Blackdown Hills
Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

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 (20)

flood storage areas, conservation 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, national parks, 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.

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Source: South Somerset

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