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17 Parkhurst Road Torquay TQ1 4EW

AT/2021/0147Works To Tree Within TPOApproved

Approved on 21 June 2021

Council decision: ApprovalDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Conifers on border (T1) of 17 and 19 Parkhurst Road; fell due to blocking light, roots spreading towards house, blowing towards house in winds and rotting at the base. Replant with more appropriate trees, to be advised by arborist or planning. The trees at the rear of the garden (leylandii T2) would be reduced to about 23/24 feet high. The tree (conifer T3) will be about 35 feet high. Leylandii (T2J on land at bottom of 17 Parkhurst Road. Top due to excessive height and shading. Remove 6ft and tidy broken branches. Conifer (T3) reshape and top.

Received
20 April 2021
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Tormohun
  1. Received20 Apr
  2. Validated27 Apr
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided21 Jun

Decided in 55 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at 17 Parkhurst Road Torquay TQ1 4EW. Torbay has handled 738 applications of this type. This one was decided in 62 days, 6 days longer than Torbay's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 36 applications across Tormohun. We hold 1,085 applications in total for the TQ1 postcode area.

87% of trees applications at Torbay Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
TQ1 4EW
Application type
Works To Tree Within TPO
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
27 April 2021

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-09756367
Comments
0
Documents
14

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Tree Preservation Order: Ref 1993.001Part of the site
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (23)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, Article 4 directions, 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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© 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.

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