61 Longlands Drive Houghton-le-Spring DH5 8LR
Approved on 17 December 2018
Delegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Crown thin and reduce height of T1 by 15-20% and cut back from house T2 by 2-3 metres to TPO 85.
- Received
- 30 October 2018
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Sunderland City Council
- Ward
- Copt Hill
- ReceivedReceived30 Oct
- ValidatedValidated30 Oct
- Consult.Consultation22 Nov
- TargetTarget Date25 Dec
- DecidedDecided17 Dec
Decided in 48 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is a tree application at 61 Longlands Drive Houghton-le-Spring DH5 8LR. Sunderland has handled 178 applications of this type. This one was decided in 48 days. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 6 applications across Copt Hill. We hold 99 applications in total for the DH5 postcode area.
100% of trees applications at Sunderland City Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 7 weeks (median).
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Application details
- Postcode
- DH5 8LR
- Application type
- Trees in a Tree Preservation Order
- Scale / size
- Small
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 30 October 2018
- Consultation expiry
- 22 November 2018
- Consultation start
- 1 November 2018
- Consultation end
- 22 November 2018
- Target decision date
- 25 December 2018
- Permission expires
- 17 December 2023
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions and tree preservation orders. Ask the council if these matter.
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.
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Source: Sunderland
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