Foxes Fields, Selbourne Place, Minehead, TA24 5TY
Approved on 7 February 2025
Council decision: GrantDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
Application to carry out management works to one beech tree, one lime tree and one sycamore included in West Somerset District Tree Preservation Order T/3/78 at Foxes Fields
- Received
- 13 December 2024
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- West Somerset
- Ward
- Minehead
- Agent
- Sedgemoor Tree Services
- ReceivedReceived13 Dec
- ValidatedValidated2 Jan
- Consult.Consultation6 Feb
- TargetTarget Date27 Feb
- DecidedDecided7 Feb
Decided in 36 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a tree application at Foxes Fields, Selbourne Place, Minehead, TA24 5TY. West Somerset has handled 197 applications of this type. This one was decided in 56 days. The site is in the Wellington Square conservation area, with 8 listed buildings nearby. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 59 applications across Minehead. We hold 1,196 applications in total for the TA24 postcode area.
100% of trees applications at West Somerset were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).
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Application details
- Postcode
- TA24 5TY
- Application type
- Tree Preservation Order - works related
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Minehead
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 2 January 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 6 February 2025
- Consultation start
- 6 January 2025
- Consultation end
- 6 February 2025
- Neighbour consultation start
- 6 January 2025
- Neighbour consultation end
- 6 February 2025
- Last date for comments
- 27 February 2025
- Target decision date
- 27 February 2025
Applicant and agent
- Applicant
- Private applicant
- Agent
- Sedgemoor Tree Services
- Agent address
- 4 River View, Combwich, Bridgwater, TA5 2RE
Planning decision
- Case officer
- David Galley
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Publicity
- Advertisement expiry
- 6 February 2025
- Site notice start
- 16 January 2025
- Site notice end
- 6 February 2025
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- Conservation area: Wellington Square
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions and tree preservation orders. Ask the council if these matter.
Also checked, none recorded (21)
flood storage areas, listed buildings, 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
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.
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Planning history at this site
2 other applications at this property, newest first.
- 202623 Feb
Various works to five trees including crown reductions and deadwood removal. Felling of one sycamore…
ApprovedTree Works in Conservation AreaT/21/26/003 - 202623 Feb
T13 Sycamore. Reduce limb by 4-5m approx. over T18 (birch) and remove deadwood over 30mm or longer than 1…
ApprovedTree Preservation Order - works relatedT/21/26/002
Source: West Somerset
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