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Snatchwood View Abersychan Pontypool Torfaen

26/P/0064/TPOWorks to a tree with a TPOApproved

Approved on 23 March 2026

Council decision: Approve with ConditionsDelegated (officer decision)

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Proposal

Fell TPO trees T3.14, T3.15, T3.16 and T3.G2 as part of urgent highway safety works required to be carried out on the roadside retaining wall to the west side of Snatchwood Road. The wall is in poor condition with various bulges and areas of damage, it is now in danger of collapse.

Received
6 February 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Pontnewynydd And Snatchwood
  1. Received6 Feb
  2. Validated6 Feb
  3. Consult.2 Mar
  4. Target20 Mar
  5. Decided23 Mar

Decided in 45 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at Snatchwood View Abersychan Pontypool Torfaen. Torfaen has handled 175 applications of this type. This one was decided in 45 days, 11 days quicker than Torfaen's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 4 applications across Pontnewynydd And Snatchwood.

94% of trees applications at Torfaen County Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Application type
Works to a tree with a TPO
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Pontypool Community Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
6 February 2026
Consultation expiry
2 March 2026
Consultation start
9 February 2026
Consultation end
2 March 2026
Last date for comments
2 March 2026
Target decision date
20 March 2026
Permission expires
23 March 2028

Applicant and agent

Applicant
Private applicant

Planning decision

Case officer
Mr Simon Pritchard
Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

Documents
11
Constraints
3

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Source: Torfaen

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