AT/2020/0302Planning Application AT/2020/0302

Trees application at 14 Glenmore Road Brixham TQ5 9BT, Torbay. View planning documents, track the decision and get email alerts on updates.

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T1 Sycamore: (Please see letter, unclear whether covered by TPO due to tree age/age of Order. Torbay Council to assess whether to treat as Conservation Area Notification. 1. Reduce height of tree by 40-50% (6-8m.) to create pollard (coppard) that can then be managed on a 3-5 year cycle (re-pollarding). Reason: To reduce dominance, improve form, enable use of top garden terrace and to aid future management. Also to reduce risk of damage to drystone retaining wall. 2. Shorten side growth over garden by 3.5m. back to suitable growth points. Reason: To reduce encroachment over garden. 3. Clean out stored debris at base of tree and cut epicormic growth to ground level. Reason: Aesthetic improvement and to aid visibility for future inspection. 4. Remove low branch with very limited foliage and line attached. Reason: To improve form. 5. Due to poor access, cut up arisings to be stacked in a corner of the rear garden as a habitat pile to break down naturally, with a separate stack of cord lengths of branch sections (one metre approx.) as further wildlife habitat.

AT/2020/0302

Small

Trees

14 Glenmore Road Brixham TQ5 9BT

SubmittedSubmitted10 Oct

ValidatedValidated

ConsultationConsultation

TargetTarget Date

DecidedDecided9 Dec

9 weeks typical decision time in Torbay85% of trees applications approved

This is a tree application at 14 Glenmore Road Brixham TQ5 9BT. Torbay has handled 729 applications of this type and approves 85% of them, typically deciding them in 55 days. This one was decided in 60 days, 5 days longer than Torbay's median. The site is in the Brixham Town conservation area, with 6 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 21 applications across Furzeham With Summercombe. We hold 746 applications in total for the TQ5 postcode area.