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Flat 1 Meadwood St Marks Road Torquay TQ1 2EH

AT/2024/0166Works To Tree Within TPOApproved

Approved on 8 August 2024

Council decision: ApprovalDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

T1. Mimosa. Management works. Reduce eastern side of crown by approx 1.5m to reduce end weight as lop sided. Trim protruding branches to make crown tidy. Crown lift over access road for a ground clearance of approx 3m to stop bin lorry striking branches. ///venues.dark.cakesT2. Willow. Management works. Prune lower branches overhanging drive back to curb edge (approx.1.5 m from branch tip to suitable growth points) selectively prune over extended branches within the crown by approx 1.5m from branch tip to suitable growth points to blend in with crown and to avoid any failures in windy weather. ///vote.park.wage

Received
28 June 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Wellswood
  1. Received28 Jun
  2. Validated1 Jul
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided8 Aug

Decided in 38 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. This one was decided in 41 days, 2 weeks quicker than Torbay's typical decision time. The site is in the Lincombes conservation area. There has been 1 other application at this address. 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
1 July 2024

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-13197292
Comments
0
Documents
8

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • Conservation area: Lincombes
  • Tree Preservation Order: Ref 1972.015
  • 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.

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