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St Michaels Church, Spreyton, EX17 5AL

0457/21/TPOWorks to a TPO TreeApproved

Approved on 9 June 2021

Council decision: Lesser Tree Works Allowed

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

Proposal

T1: Oak - Crown lift to 8m from ground level on East side, treegrowing in close proximity to property and causing excessive shading;T2: Horse Chestnut - Crown lift to 5m from ground level on East side,tree dropping conkers onto cars and causing excessive shading.

Received
8 February 2021
Ward
Drewsteignton
  1. Received8 Feb
  2. Validated12 Apr
  3. Consult.21 May
  4. Target7 Jun
  5. Decided9 Jun

Decided in 58 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at St Michaels Church, Spreyton, EX17 5AL. South West Devon has handled 906 applications of this type. This one was decided in 121 days, 9 weeks longer than South West Devon's typical decision time. The site is in 15 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 12 applications across Drewsteignton. We hold 833 applications in total for the EX17 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
EX17 5AL
Application type
Works to a TPO Tree
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Spreyton
District
West Devon

Planning application dates

Date validated
12 April 2021
Consultation expiry
21 May 2021
Consultation end
21 May 2021
Last date for comments
21 May 2021
Target decision date
7 June 2021

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Southill Bungalow Chagford Newton Abbot TQ13 8ES

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
12

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

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, 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, 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 West Devon

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