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St Helens Church Barnsley Road Wakefield WF2 6EJ

24/01823/TPOTree Preservation Order ConsentDecided

Decided on 10 December 2024

Council decision: Split Decision on ApplicationDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

T4 Horse Chestnut: Fell; T12 Ash: Remove branch over footpath; T13 Ash: Reduce lowest western limb by 3m; T14 Beech: Fell leaving a 4m habitat stem and replace with a 10-12cm Fagus sylvatica f. purpurea (Purple Beech).

Received
21 October 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Wakefield South
Agent
Tree Care Consultancy Ltd
  1. Received21 Oct
  2. Validated22 Oct
  3. Consult.
  4. Target17 Dec
  5. Decided10 Dec

Decided in 49 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at St Helens Church Barnsley Road Wakefield WF2 6EJ. Wakefield has handled 677 applications of this type. The site is in a conservation area, with 5 listed buildings nearby. There have been 3 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 45 applications across Wakefield South. We hold 1,159 applications in total for the WF2 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
WF2 6EJ
Application type
Tree Preservation Order Consent
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
22 October 2024
Target decision date
17 December 2024
Permission expires
10 December 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent
Tree Care Consultancy Ltd
Agent address
37 Hall Cliffe Road Horbury WAKEFIELD WF4 6BY

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13498004
Comments
0
Documents
8

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

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, 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

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© 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: Wakefield

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