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6 Elmsleigh Road Paignton TQ4 5AU

AT/2025/0307Works To Tree Within CAApproved

Approved on 8 December 2025

Council decision: No Objections RaisedDelegated (officer decision)

Site boundary (council red line)

Proposal

1x Bay tree situated in rear garden of No8 - Cut back all branches that are overhanging the rear garden of No6 back to just beyond the boundary line. All arising material shall be removed from site and returned to our premises for recycling. Justification; Overhanging branches from the neighbouring tree now interfering with the garage roof. Pruning these branches will prevent any potential damage from occurring to the garage roof.

Received
15 October 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Goodrington With Roselands
Agent
Devon Tree Services
  1. Received15 Oct
  2. Validated30 Oct
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided8 Dec

Decided in 39 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at 6 Elmsleigh Road Paignton TQ4 5AU. Torbay has handled 738 applications of this type. This one was decided in 54 days. The site is in the Old Paignton conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 7 applications across Goodrington With Roselands. We hold 416 applications in total for the TQ4 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
TQ4 5AU
Application type
Works To Tree Within CA
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
30 October 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent
Devon Tree Services
Agent address
Devon Tree Services Little Acre Ipplepen Newton Abbot TQ12 5TR United Kingdom

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14412878
Comments
0

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Old Paignton
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (23)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, 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.

Source: Torbay

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