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Elm Tree House, Garden Street, Penkhull, Stoke-on-trent, ST4 5DY

71853/TCATree Works in Conservation AreaApproved

Approved on 8 April 2025

Council decision: Raise No ObjectionDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Works to 11no. trees to lift the crowns by approximately 4.5 metres from ground level

Received
14 February 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Penkhull & Springfields
  1. Received14 Feb
  2. Validated17 Feb
  3. Consult.31 Mar
  4. Target
  5. Decided8 Apr

Decided in 50 days (council typically 70)

About this application

This is a tree application at Elm Tree House, Garden Street, Penkhull, Stoke-on-trent, ST4 5DY. Stoke on Trent has handled 94 applications of this type. This one was decided in 53 days, 2 weeks quicker than Stoke on Trent's typical decision time. The site is in the Penkhull Village conservation area, with 4 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 13 applications across Penkhull & Springfields. We hold 404 applications in total for the ST4 postcode area.

73% of trees applications at Stoke-on-Trent City Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 10 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
ST4 5DY
Application type
Tree Works in Conservation Area
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
17 February 2025
Consultation expiry
31 March 2025
Consultation start
10 March 2025
Consultation end
31 March 2025
Neighbour consultation end
31 March 2025
Last date for comments
31 March 2025
Application expires
31 March 2025

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Publicity

Advertisement expiry
31 March 2025
Site notice end
31 March 2025

Additional information

Documents
6

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • Conservation area: Penkhull Village
  • Article 4 direction: Penkhull Village Conservation Area
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (22)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, tree preservation orders, 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: Stoke on Trent

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