40 Dower Road Torquay TQ1 4JH
Proposal
5 day notice We have a protected tree in our garden which has fallen down through the night last night, into our garden and our neighbours gardens either side. The trunk is on our land in the woodland area behind the garden. We obviously need to remove the fallen branches as they are unsafe. Ideally we would like to remove the whole tree as half has already come down, chances are the other half will fall down. We have young children and we need the use of our garden, which we cannot use if we have a large tree potentially falling apart on it at anytime! We need to remove the unsafe branches and parts of the tree ASAP as it is currently unsafe.
- Received
- 11 December 2020
- Decided
- 14 December 2020 · Works exempt
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Torbay Council
- Ward
- St Marychurch
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- ReceivedSubmitted11 Dec
- ValidatedValidated14 Dec
- Consult.Consultation
- TargetTarget Date
- DecidedDecided14 Dec
Decided in 0 days (council typically 56)
This is a tree application at 40 Dower Road Torquay TQ1 4JH. Torbay has handled 729 applications of this type and approves 85% of them, typically deciding them in 55 days. This one was decided in 3 days, 7 weeks quicker than Torbay's median. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 15 applications across St Marychurch. We hold 1,050 applications in total for the TQ1 postcode area.
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1 other application at this property, newest first.
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- Tree Preservation Order: Ref 2003.027Part of the site
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
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