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Flat 1 Combe Bank Lindthorpe Way Brixham TQ5 8PB

AT/2023/0015Works To Tree Within TPOApproved

Approved on 19 April 2023

Council decision: ApprovalDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

T001. 2 x Holm Oak. Crown lift over access road and garages for a ground clearance of of 4m to enable safe access and to balance trees. T003. 2 x Holm Oak. Crown lift over access road and garages, and communal seating area for a ground clearance of of 4m to enable safe access and to balance trees T10. Mixed group of trees. Crown lift Lime over parking spaces for a ground clearance of 4m. Side prune Holm Oak growing adjacent to building to achieve a sideways clearance of approx. 2.5 to 3m and a ground clearance over road of 4m. T007. Mixed woodland trees. Crown raise Sycamore growing over car park area of Penpethy Court for a ground clearance of approx. 4m. Holm Oak and Sycamore growing over footpath and highway between Penpethy Court and 2 Penpethy Road growing on Combe Bank land to be side pruned back to boundary wall and crown lifted over footpath for a ground clearance of 2.5m, and over highway for a ground clearance of 5.2m

Received
23 January 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Furzeham With Summercombe
  1. Received23 Jan
  2. Validated1 Feb
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided19 Apr

Decided in 77 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at Flat 1 Combe Bank Lindthorpe Way Brixham TQ5 8PB. Torbay has handled 738 applications of this type. This one was decided in 86 days, 4 weeks longer than Torbay's typical decision time. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 20 applications across Furzeham With Summercombe. We hold 769 applications in total for the TQ5 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
TQ5 8PB
Application type
Works To Tree Within TPO
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
1 February 2023

Applicant and agent

Agent
Hi-Line Contractors
Agent address
Hi-Line Contractors Brookfield Yard Old Tedburn Road Exeter EX42HF

Planning decision

Case officer
Daniel Vickridge

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-11872618
Comments
0
Documents
4

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)Part of the site
  • Tree Preservation Order: Ref 1963.002Part of the site · +2 more
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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