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Morden House Cockington Lane Torquay TQ2 6QT

AT/2024/0266Works To Tree-Dead And DangerousApproved

Approved on 8 October 2024

Council decision: ApprovalDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

I plan to remove the hazardous failed ash tree that poses an unacceptable risk to property of the nights house charter house which is run as an air bnb. The tree is targeting there building main drive and entrance for the guests. The tree has lost it's codominant stem and 50% of the canopy leaving it structurally compromised with a stem failure of over 50% leaving it mechanically and structurally compromised.

Received
3 October 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Cockington With Chelston
  1. Received3 Oct
  2. Validated4 Oct
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided8 Oct

Decided in 4 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at Morden House Cockington Lane Torquay TQ2 6QT. Torbay has handled 738 applications of this type. This one was decided in 5 days, 7 weeks quicker than Torbay's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 26 applications across Cockington With Chelston. 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 6QT
Application type
Works To Tree-Dead And Dangerous
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
4 October 2024

Applicant and agent

Agent
First Cut Trees
Agent address
First Cut Trees

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
6

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 2: Medium probability (rivers and sea)Part of the site
  • Tree Preservation Order: Ref 1972.001Part 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

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© 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.

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