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Flat 1 Meadwood St Marks Road Torquay TQ1 2EH

AT/2023/0254Works To Tree Within TPOWithdrawn

Withdrawn on 5 September 2023

Council decision: Application WithdrawnDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

T1. Elm. Remove Limb on tree resting on lamp column 9 back to main stem. Crown lift remaining growth over highway and footpath to achieve a ground clearance of 5.2m to get statutory highway clearance by removing secondary branches only. ///ruby.breed.unrealistic Property has been issued a highways notice to clear tree.

Received
16 August 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Wellswood
  1. Received16 Aug
  2. Validated16 Aug
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided5 Sep

Decided in 20 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at Flat 1 Meadwood St Marks Road Torquay TQ1 2EH. Torbay has handled 738 applications of this type. It was withdrawn 20 days after it was submitted, before a decision was made. The site is in the Lincombes conservation area. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 46 applications across Wellswood. 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 2EH
Application type
Works To Tree Within TPO
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
16 August 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-12393246
Comments
0
Documents
4

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Lincombes
  • Tree Preservation Order: Ref 1972.015Part of the site
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (22)

flood storage 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.

Source: Torbay

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