1, Grove Park, Tavistock, PL19 9HJ
Refused on 28 March 2024
Council decision: Refusal
Proposal
T1: Oak – Crown reduction of height & lateral overextending growth by 6mtrs, to reduce risk of wind damage & provide safety over property, T2: Oak – Reduce lateral crown by 6mtrs & reduce height of crown by 6mtrs to provide more light & safety to the property below, over extended limbs that have grown through the thuja below are to be reduced by 1mtr in front of existing thuja, providing better streetlight visibility at night & safety over neighbours property, T4: Sycamore – Pollard to 8mtrs from base of the tree & any extended lateral to 2mtrs to provide safety to footpath, the adjacent road, neighbours property & better lighting at night, T6: Multi-stem Sycamore – prune over extended lateral growth by 3mtrs to prevent potential wind damage and retain overall shape, T7: Sycamore - to reduce lowest extended lateral growth by 5 meters to improve lighting in garden & avoid entanglement, remove deadwood, apply cobra bracing system between main stem & lower bowing limb overhanging road to prevent limbs from falling on any vehicles parked below in the event of a storm & to protect pedestrians using the path adjacent, removal of two lowest limbs to branch bark collar overhanging road the road to give better clearance for high sided vehicles & machinery,T8: Turkey Oak – apply cobra bracing system in upper canopy
- Received
- 23 August 2023
- Council
- South Hams District Council
- Ward
- Tavistock South East
- ReceivedReceived23 Aug
- ValidatedValidated2 Feb
- Consult.Consultation13 Mar
- TargetTarget Date
- DecidedDecided28 Mar
Decided in 55 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a tree application at 1, Grove Park, Tavistock, PL19 9HJ. South West Devon has handled 906 applications of this type. This one was decided in 218 days, 23 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 36 applications across Tavistock South East. We hold 827 applications in total for the PL19 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
- PL19 9HJ
- Application type
- Works to a TPO Tree
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Tavistock
- District
- West Devon
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 2 February 2024
- Consultation expiry
- 13 March 2024
- Consultation start
- 13 February 2024
- Consultation end
- 13 March 2024
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- 1 Prospect Cottages Harrowbarrow Callington PL17 8BA
Publicity
- Site notice start
- 13 February 2024
Additional information
- Documents
- 7
Site constraints
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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