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42 Knighton Road, Wembury, PL9 0EB

0417/25/TPOWorks to a TPO TreeApproved

Approved on 20 March 2025

Council decision: Conditional Approval

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

Proposal

T1: Copper Beech - Reduce lowest lateral branches on eastern canopy standing at 5m by 2m to appropriate growth points, leaving branches standing at 5m & crown raise on eastern canopy only to achieve a clearance of 4m from ground level, not cutting over 50mm in diameter, aiming to regain the trees natural shape as well as stunting the growth on the eastern canopy to alleviate future stress on large included bifurcation near the base of the tree & T2: Weeping Beech - Crown raise on western canopy only to achieve a clearance of 4m, not cutting above a diameter of 50mm - Allowing established vegetation growing below to thrive.

Received
12 February 2025
Ward
Wembury & Brixton
  1. Received12 Feb
  2. Validated13 Feb
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided20 Mar

Decided in 35 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at 42 Knighton Road, Wembury, PL9 0EB. South West Devon has handled 906 applications of this type. This one was decided in 36 days, 3 weeks quicker than South West Devon's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area, with 2 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 46 applications across Wembury & Brixton. We hold 699 applications in total for the PL9 postcode area.

93% of trees applications at South Hams District Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
PL9 0EB
Application type
Works to a TPO Tree
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Wembury
District
South Hams

Planning application dates

Date validated
13 February 2025
Consultation start
14 February 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
16 Glenavon Road Mannamead Plymouth PL3 4PE

Additional information

Documents
8

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • National Landscape (AONB): South Devon
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Not published by this council, so not checked: 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, 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, nutrient neutrality catchments, 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.

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 West Devon

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