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Bronescombe Smith Hill Bishopsteignton Devon TQ14 9QT

26/01085/CANConservation Area NotificationsApproved
Prior approval

Approved on 18 August 2026

Council decision: CONSERVATION AREA NOTIFICATION APPROVAL

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

Proposal

G1 - Pittosporum, Purple Plum and Leylandii Conifer. Reduce pittosporum by 40-50%, reduce and shape plum tree by 1-1.5m, and remove all overhang from neighbouring Leylandii back to match lower hedge line. G2 - Cherry, Maple, Walnut & Whitebeam. Remove Cherry to ground level. Reduce Maple by approx 2m. Reduce Walnut by 1.5-2m. Reduce Whitebeam by approx 1m. T1 - Hornbeam - reduce by 2-2.5m T2 - Olive - Fell to ground. T3 - Ash in neighbouring property, framework pollard to reduce ultimate height by approx 50%. T4 - Cedar in neighbouring property, fell to ground. T5 - Field Maple, reduce as much as possible whilst retaining a leaf bearing structure. Ultimate reduction percentage hard to judge until cutting has been started. Aiming for an approx 2m reduction all round.

Received
4 July 2026
Ward
Bishopsteignton
  1. Received4 Jul
  2. Validated7 Jul
  3. Consult.28 Jul
  4. Target18 Aug
  5. Decided18 Aug

Decided in 42 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a heritage application at Bronescombe Smith Hill Bishopsteignton Devon TQ14 9QT. Teignbridge has handled 927 applications of this type. This one was decided in 45 days, 4 days quicker than Teignbridge's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 16 applications across Bishopsteignton. We hold 566 applications in total for the TQ14 postcode area.

97% of heritage applications at Teignbridge District Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 7 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
TQ14 9QT
Application type
Conservation Area Notifications
Scale / size
Small
Parish
BISHOPSTEIGNTON

Planning application dates

Date validated
7 July 2026
Last date for comments
28 July 2026
Target decision date
18 August 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent
Shim's Tree and Garden Maintenance
Agent address
29 Higher Roborough Ashburton Newton Abbot TQ13 7BH

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

Documents
14

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.

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: Teignbridge

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