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Hellinghay House Seaway Lane Torquay TQ2 6PW

AT/2026/0048Works To Tree Within CAApproved

Approved on 24 March 2026

Council decision: No Objections RaisedDelegated (officer decision)

Site boundary (council red line)

Proposal

Beech tree: To the rear of Hellinghay House behind garage and store. Any pruning to achieve crown reduction will be carried out as specified by BS3998 and will be as follows: 1). Reduce the tree from an existing height of 7.5 metres to a finished height of 6 metres. 2). Reduce crown extents from the current 3 metres to approximately 2.25 metres. This applies to the branches at all cardinal points. 3). Check for "crossed branches" dead branches, disease and rot.

Received
6 February 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Cockington With Chelston
  1. Received6 Feb
  2. Validated12 Feb
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided24 Mar

Decided in 40 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at Hellinghay House Seaway Lane Torquay TQ2 6PW. Torbay has handled 738 applications of this type. This one was decided in 46 days, 10 days quicker than Torbay's typical decision time. The site is in the Cockington conservation area. 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 6PW
Application type
Works To Tree Within CA
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
12 February 2026

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14683823
Comments
0

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Cockington
  • 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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