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Buckland Chapel The Village Buckland Monachorum PL20 7LZ

0449/25/TCAWorks to a Tree in a Conservation AreaApproved

Approved on 1 April 2025

Council decision: Tree Works No Objection Raised

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

Proposal

T1: Yew - Crown lift to 2.5m above ground level including the complete removal of the lowest limb on the Western canopy aspect approx. 100mm in diameter. Lateral reduction on the Southern canopy aspect by 1m. Lateral reduction to all other canopy aspects by 2m. Crown height reduction by a maximum of 2m. Removal of internal epicormic growth. Removal of deadwood (exempt from the requirement for permission)

Received
14 February 2025
Ward
Buckland Monachorum
  1. Received14 Feb
  2. Validated20 Feb
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided1 Apr

Decided in 40 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at Buckland Chapel The Village Buckland Monachorum PL20 7LZ. South West Devon has handled 906 applications of this type. This one was decided in 46 days, 10 days quicker than South West Devon's typical decision time. The site is in the Buckland Monachorum conservation area, with 20 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 25 applications across Buckland Monachorum. We hold 468 applications in total for the PL20 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
PL20 7LZ
Application type
Works to a Tree in a Conservation Area
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Buckland Monachorum
District
West Devon

Planning application dates

Date validated
20 February 2025
Consultation start
21 February 2025

Additional information

Documents
6

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)
  • Conservation area: Buckland Monachorum
  • National Landscape (AONB): Tamar Valley

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 (20)

flood storage 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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