Saint Michaels Church Church Street Houghton-le-Spring DH4 4DN
Approved on 5 December 2025
Planning committee
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Proposal
Works to trees - T14152 (Sycamore) - Crown lift to 5.2m over highway, T14166 (Sycamore) - Crown lift to 5.2m over highway, T14167 (Sycamore) - Crown lift to 5.2m over highway crown prune to clear lighting column by 2m remove large limb over road, T14168 (Sycamore) - Crown lift to 5.2m over highway, T14169 (Sycamore) - Remove basal epic growth to 5.2m remove epi up to main unions, T14170 (Sycamore) - Crown lift to 5.2m over highway, T14171 (Sycamore) - Crown lift to 5.2m over highway remove 1 crossing branch back to stem, T14172 (Sycamore) - Crown lift to 5.2m over highway 2 lower limbs, T14174 (Sycamore) - Crown prune decayed limb crown prune to clear building by 2m, T14175 (Sycamore) - Crown prune to clear building by 2m remove stem closest building, T14176 (Sycamore) - Crown lift to 5.2m over highway 2 small branches, T14177 (Sycamore) - Crown lift to 5.2m over highway just over road, T14178 (Sycamore) - Remove deadwood crown prune to clear building by 2m, T14181 (Sycamore) - Crown prune to clear building by 2m.
- Received
- 27 October 2025
- Decision level
- Planning committee
- Council
- Sunderland City Council
- Ward
- Houghton
- ReceivedReceived27 Oct
- ValidatedValidated3 Nov
- Consult.Consultation26 Nov
- TargetTarget Date31 Dec
- DecidedDecided5 Dec
Decided in 32 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is a tree application at Saint Michaels Church Church Street Houghton-le-Spring DH4 4DN. Sunderland has handled 178 applications of this type. This one was decided in 39 days, 10 days quicker than Sunderland's typical decision time. The site is in the St Michael's conservation area, with 7 listed buildings nearby. 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 4DN
- Application type
- Tree Preservation order LAP Reg 3
- Scale / size
- Small
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 3 November 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 27 November 2025
- Consultation start
- 5 November 2025
- Consultation end
- 26 November 2025
- Last date for comments
- 27 November 2025
- Target decision date
- 31 December 2025
- Committee meeting
- 24 November 2025
- Permission expires
- 5 December 2030
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Sunderland City Council
- Agent address
- Mr John Hodgkinson SCC Arboriculture Department Parsons Depot Washington United Kingdom
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 58 days
Publicity
- Site notice start
- 6 November 2025
- Site notice end
- 27 November 2025
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Conservation area: St Michael's
- 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 (20)
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, 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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