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Highwood Moult Road Salcombe TQ8 8LG

2905/24/TPOWorks to a TPO TreeApproved

Approved on 22 October 2024

Council decision: Lesser Tree Works Allowed

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

Proposal

T1 & T2: Holm Oak - reduce all over back to previous pruning points to leave an approximate height of 2.5-3m. For cyclical pruning & T3: Yew - crown reduction by approximately 1.5m and crown lift by 2m from ground level to facilitate pedestrian access freely beneath it. Finished height of approximately 5m to maintain spatial distance with Sycamore, allow pedestrian access beneath tree to maintain lawn area, more light for new hedge planting and lawn, T4: Sycamore - crown lift to 5m from ground level, remove any damaged or crossing limbs (as annotated on attached photo) and moderate sized deadwood. To allow more light for new hedging and lawn & T5: Turkey Oak - single stem growing close to group, has damage on only branch - no viable future. Dismantle, fell close to ground level.

Received
11 September 2024
Ward
Salcombe & Thurlestone
  1. Received11 Sep
  2. Validated13 Sep
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided22 Oct

Decided in 39 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at Highwood Moult Road Salcombe TQ8 8LG. South West Devon has handled 906 applications of this type. This one was decided in 41 days, 2 weeks quicker than South West Devon's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 183 applications across Salcombe & Thurlestone. We hold 2,548 applications in total for the TQ8 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
TQ8 8LG
Application type
Works to a TPO Tree
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Salcombe
District
South Hams

Planning application dates

Date validated
13 September 2024
Consultation start
18 September 2024

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Unit 11, Riverview House Broadmeadow Industrial Estate Teignmouth TQ149AE

Publicity

Site notice start
18 September 2024

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.

  • National Landscape (AONB): South Devon
  • Heritage coast: South Devon
  • 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 (20)

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, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves 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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