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Disused Railway Line, Lydford, EX20 4HE

1418/22/TPOWorks to a TPO TreeApproved

Approved on 11 July 2022

Council decision: Tree Works Allowed

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

Proposal

G1.001: Common Beech – Reduce Primary Lateral Limb Radially by 2 – 8metres and Crown Height Reduction by 1 metres to reduce the risk offailure, G6.002 Common Beech - Reduce primary ascending limb by 1.5min height to reduce the risk of failure and G9.001 - Common Beech -Reduce the primary ascending lateral limb in height by 2m from 30 -28m and reshape to reduce the risk of rotational failure in high winds

Received
25 April 2022
Ward
Bridestowe
  1. Received25 Apr
  2. Validated9 May
  3. Consult.2 Jun
  4. Target4 Jul
  5. Decided11 Jul

Decided in 63 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at Disused Railway Line, Lydford, EX20 4HE. South West Devon has handled 906 applications of this type. This one was decided in 77 days, 3 weeks longer than South West Devon's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 76 applications across Bridestowe. We hold 964 applications in total for the EX20 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
EX20 4HE
Application type
Works to a TPO Tree
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Bridestowe
District
West Devon

Planning application dates

Date validated
9 May 2022
Consultation expiry
2 June 2022
Consultation end
2 June 2022
Last date for comments
13 June 2022
Target decision date
4 July 2022

Applicant and agent

Agent address
24 Southernhay West Exeter EX1 1PR

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
10

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 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 (22)

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, 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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