25 Greenmount Houghton-le-Spring DH4 5FB

25/01596/TPOTree Preservation OrderApproved

Approved on 6 August 2025

Council decision: ResponseDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Request for protection of two Sycamores to front garden and established hedgerow as application 25/01316/FUL is causing concern.

Received: 18 July 2025
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Council: Sunderland City Council
Ward: Houghton

ReceivedReceived18 Jul
ValidatedValidated18 Jul
Consult.Consultation
TargetTarget Date19 Jul
DecidedDecided6 Aug

Decided in 19 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a tree application at 25 Greenmount Houghton-le-Spring DH4 5FB. Sunderland has handled 178 applications of this type. This one was decided in 19 days, 4 weeks quicker than Sunderland's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 9 applications across Houghton. We hold 167 applications in total for the DH4 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: DH4 5FB
Application type: Tree Preservation Order
Scale / size: Small

Planning application dates

Date validated: 18 July 2025
Target decision date: 19 July 2025

Planning decision

Statutory period: 1 days

Additional information

Comments: 0
Documents: 0
Constraints: 1

Site constraints

Checking the site

2/3

Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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 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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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.

Source: Sunderland

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