The Crooked Cottage Sturmyes Road France Lynch Stroud Gloucestershire GL6 8LZ
Proposal
T1 Ash-leafed Maple - Reduce crown by approximately 2.5m, T2 Cotinus - Reduce crown by approximately 2m, T3-T5 Hazel - Remove 50% of stems (ongoing coppice plan)
- Received
- 5 October 2020
- Decided
- 29 October 2020 · Consent
- Decision level
- Prior Notification / CLDS
- Council
- Stroud District Council
- Ward
- Chalford Ward
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- ReceivedSubmitted5 Oct
- ValidatedValidated5 Oct
- Consult.Consultation28 Oct
- TargetTarget Date9 Nov
- DecidedDecided29 Oct
Decided in 24 days (council typically 49)
This is a tree application at The Crooked Cottage Sturmyes Road France Lynch Stroud Gloucestershire GL6 8LZ. Stroud has handled 1,025 applications of this type and approves nearly all of them, typically deciding them in 33 days. This one was decided in 24 days, 9 days quicker than Stroud's median. The site is in the France Lynch conservation area, with 2 listed buildings nearby. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 99 applications across Chalford Ward. We hold 3,075 applications in total for the GL6 postcode area.
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Planning history at this site
5 other applications at this property, newest first.
- 202311 Oct
T1 - Deodar Cedar - reduced in height by 1.5m. T2 - Ash Leaf Maple - reduce back to previous reduction points.
ApprovedTrees in a Conservation AreaS.23/2008/TCA - 202312 Jul
Three White Silver Birch trees - fell.
ApprovedTrees in a Conservation AreaS.23/1387/TCA - 201819 Jun
Spruce (T1) - Fell due to size (390305 203475).
ApprovedTrees in a Conservation AreaS.18/1347/TCA - 20173 Apr
Recently topped conifer - Fell the remainder of this tree and also the small Elder growing alongside.
ApprovedTrees in a Conservation AreaS.17/0778/TCA - 20158 Nov
T1 Ash-leafed Maple - Remove long limb. T2 Hazel - Remove 50% of stems (ongoing coppice plan). T3 Hawthorn…
ApprovedTrees in a Conservation AreaS.15/2623/TCA
Planning constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Conservation area: France Lynch
- National Landscape (AONB): Cotswolds
- 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 (19)
flood storage areas, 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, 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.
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