17 British School Close Abersychan Pontypool Torfaen NP4 7AS
Approved on 26 August 2026
Council decision: Approve with ConditionsDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Reduce crown back towards boundary by 3m maximum at suitable lateral branches. Lift low foliage tips to 5m over 17/18. Remove dead or damaged branches over 17/18. Tree owner should have a full tree assessment carried out in order to meet their duty of care to neighbours.
- Received
- 11 February 2026
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Ward
- Abersychan
- ReceivedReceived11 Feb
- ValidatedValidated11 Feb
- Consult.Consultation4 Mar
- TargetTarget Date25 Mar
- DecidedDecided26 Aug
Decided in 196 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a tree application at 17 British School Close Abersychan Pontypool Torfaen NP4 7AS. Torfaen has handled 175 applications of this type. This one was decided in 196 days, 20 weeks longer than Torfaen's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 23 applications across Abersychan. We hold 2,850 applications in total for the NP4 postcode area.
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
- Postcode
- NP4 7AS
- Application type
- Works to a tree with a TPO
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Pontypool Community Council
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 11 February 2026
- Consultation expiry
- 4 March 2026
- Consultation start
- 11 February 2026
- Consultation end
- 4 March 2026
- Last date for comments
- 4 March 2026
- Target decision date
- 25 March 2026
Applicant and agent
- Applicant
- Private applicant
- Agent
- Hedyn
- Agent address
- Melin Office 2 Ty'r Felin Lower Mill Field Pontypool NP4 0RH
Planning decision
- Case officer
- Mr Simon Pritchard
- Statutory period
- 42 days
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-14696630
- Documents
- 10
- Constraints
- 5
Site constraints
Source: Torfaen
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