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St Andrews Church Saint Efride's Road Torquay TQ2 5SG

AT/2023/0145Works To Tree Within CAApproved

Approved on 4 July 2023

Council decision: No Objections RaisedDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

T004. Holm Oak. Crown lift over road, footpath, and graveyard for approx ground clearance of 5m, remove epicormic growth from main stem. T006. Cypress. Remove major dead wood to make safe. Larger, stable dead wood will be remain for ecological purposes. T012. Cherry. Remove major dead wood. Remove 2 x vertical stems on limbs growing over road. T034. Holm Oak. Remove epicormic growth from stems adjacent to property. T011. Cypress remove hanging branch at approx 4m over gravestone, remove major dead wood. T005. Cypress. Remove various damaged limbs within tree.

Received
16 May 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Tormohun
  1. Received16 May
  2. Validated23 May
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided4 Jul

Decided in 42 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at St Andrews Church Saint Efride's Road Torquay TQ2 5SG. Torbay has handled 738 applications of this type. This one was decided in 49 days, 7 days quicker than Torbay's typical decision time. The site is in the Tormohun conservation area, with 6 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 36 applications across Tormohun. 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 5SG
Application type
Works To Tree Within CA
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
23 May 2023

Applicant and agent

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

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-12165697
Comments
0
Documents
4

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

Also checked, none recorded (22)

flood storage areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders, 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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