12 Towers Lane Crofton Wakefield WF4 1PT
Approved on 13 August 2023
Council decision: Application ApprovedDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
T14026 - Black Locust. Fell; T5271 - Leyland Cypress. Remove overweighted limbs protruding out from tree; T18150 - Western Red Cedar. Fell.
- Received
- 11 July 2023
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Ward
- Crofton, Ryhill And Walton
- ReceivedReceived11 Jul
- ValidatedValidated12 Jul
- Consult.Consultation
- TargetTarget Date6 Sep
- DecidedDecided13 Aug
Decided in 32 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a tree application at 12 Towers Lane Crofton Wakefield WF4 1PT. Wakefield has handled 677 applications of this type. This one was decided in 33 days, 3 weeks quicker than Wakefield's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 28 applications across Crofton, Ryhill And Walton. We hold 1,339 applications in total for the WF4 postcode area.
54% of trees applications at Wakefield Metropolitan District Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).
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Application details
- Postcode
- WF4 1PT
- Application type
- Tree Preservation Order Consent
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Crofton
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 12 July 2023
- Target decision date
- 6 September 2023
- Decision issued
- 14 August 2023
- Permission expires
- 14 August 2025
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Carter Jonas
- Agent address
- 2 Snow Hill Birmingham United Kingdom
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Green belt: Wakefield
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Not published by this council, so not checked: conservation areas and Article 4 directions. Ask the council if these matter.
Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.
Also checked, none recorded (20)
flood storage areas, listed buildings, 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.
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Source: Wakefield
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Consultants on this application
- Carter Jonas LLP · Agent for this application
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