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Greenacre, Road From Fox And Hounds Cross To Downtown Farm, Vale Down, Lydford, Devon, EX20 4BB

2181/19/TPOWorks to a TPO TreeApproved

Approved on 14 August 2019

Council decision: Tree Works Allowed

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

Proposal

T1: Ash (3 stem)- fell (Exempt Works), remove, ivy-infested, sufferingextreme die-back, resting against other trees, honey fungus present;T2: Ash - fell, infected fungus dryads saddle(polyporus squamosus,roots compromised (exempt works); T3: Ash - fell, suffering from ashdie-back, reduced leaf cover, generally ailing health.

Received
3 July 2019
Ward
Bridestowe
  1. Received3 Jul
  2. Validated3 Jul
  3. Consult.6 Aug
  4. Target28 Aug
  5. Decided14 Aug

Decided in 42 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at Greenacre, Road From Fox And Hounds Cross To Downtown Farm, Vale Down, Lydford, Devon, EX20 4BB. South West Devon has handled 906 applications of this type. This one was decided in 42 days, 2 weeks quicker 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 4BB
Application type
Works to a TPO Tree
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Lydford
District
West Devon

Planning application dates

Date validated
3 July 2019
Last date for comments
6 August 2019
Target decision date
28 August 2019
Committee meeting
27 September 2017

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Eastdown Lydford Devon EX20 4BP

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

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.

  • 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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