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Torquay Girls Grammar School 30 Shiphay Lane Torquay TQ2 7DY

AT/2021/0249Works To Tree Within TPOApproved

Approved on 18 November 2021

Council decision: ApprovalDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

T020 - Ash - T1376 - Section Fell to ground level due to being infected with Ash dieback T021 - Lime - G1379 - Crown Reduction - Reducing the height and crown spread of the tree by up to 4 metres and remove all lower suckering and epicormic growth T029 - Lime - T1384 - Crown Reduction - Reducing the height and crown spread of the tree by up to 2 metres T030 - Lime - T1383 - Remove deadwood and clear sucker growth from base of tree to allow inspection. T031 - Lime - T1382 - Section Fell to ground level and remove all arisings T032- T033 - X2 Limes - T1281 - Crown Reduction - Reducing the height and crown spread of the tree by up to 4 metres x2 lime trees

Received
20 July 2021
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Shiphay
  1. Received20 Jul
  2. Validated27 Jul
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided18 Nov

Decided in 114 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at Torquay Girls Grammar School 30 Shiphay Lane Torquay TQ2 7DY. Torbay has handled 738 applications of this type. This one was decided in 121 days, 9 weeks longer than Torbay's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 21 applications across Shiphay. We hold 1,287 applications in total for the TQ2 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
TQ2 7DY
Application type
Works To Tree Within TPO
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
27 July 2021

Applicant and agent

Agent
HI-Line Contractors SW
Agent address
Brookfield Yard Tedburn Road, Whitestone Exeter EX4 2HF United Kingdom

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-10039883
Comments
0
Documents
4

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Tree Preservation Order: Ref 2006.014Protected tree on or next to this site · +2 more
  • 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.

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.

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