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17-19 Mayfield Community Centre, Mayfield Workshops, Wednesbury Road, Walsall, WS1 3RU

26/0256Tree Application: Works to Protected Trees in a Conservation AreaApproved

Approved on 21 May 2026

Council decision: Tree: No Proposal for TPO

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

T3 - Silver Birch - cut back the crown to create 2m clearance to adjacent building, prune branches back from the nearby streetlight to create 1m clearance, remove trunk growth to 3m above ground level.

Received
24 March 2026
Ward
St Matthews (pre May 2026 ward change)
  1. Received24 Mar
  2. Validated
  3. Consult.
  4. Target4 May
  5. Decided21 May

Decided in 58 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at 17-19 Mayfield Community Centre, Mayfield Workshops, Wednesbury Road, Walsall, WS1 3RU. Walsall has handled 363 applications of this type. This one was decided in 58 days. The site is in the Bradford Street conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 15 applications across St Matthews (pre May 2026 ward change). We hold 1,353 applications in total for the WS1 postcode area.

92% of trees applications at Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
WS1 3RU
Application type
Tree Application: Works to Protected Trees in a Conservation Area
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Validated
24 March 2026
Target decision date
4 May 2026

Planning decision

Statutory period
41 days

Additional information

Documents
8

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • Conservation area: Bradford Street
  • Heritage at Risk Register: Bradford Street, Walsall
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Not published by this council, so not checked: 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, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, 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: Walsall

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