Balfour House 6 Westminster Gate Winchester Hampshire SO22 4LN
Approved on 3 October 2023
Council decision: Application PermittedDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
T1 Sycamore - Remove epicormic growth on main stem T2 Lime - Remove epicormic growth on main stem T3 Yew - Tip prune up to 0.5m to reshape crown.
- Received
- 23 August 2023
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Winchester City Council
- Ward
- ST LUKE WARD
- Agent
- Merritt Tree Specialists Ltd
- ReceivedReceived23 Aug
- ValidatedValidated29 Aug
- Consult.Consultation26 Sep
- TargetTarget Date24 Oct
- DecidedDecided3 Oct
Decided in 35 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a tree application at Balfour House 6 Westminster Gate Winchester Hampshire SO22 4LN. Winchester has handled 1,052 applications of this type. This one was decided in 41 days, 2 weeks quicker than Winchester's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 21 applications across ST LUKE WARD. We hold 747 applications in total for the SO22 postcode area.
99% of trees applications at Winchester City Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).
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Application details
- Postcode
- SO22 4LN
- Application type
- Tree Preservation Order
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Winchester Town
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 29 August 2023
- Last date for comments
- 26 September 2023
- Target decision date
- 24 October 2023
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Merritt Tree Specialists Ltd
- Agent address
- 173 Stanmore Lane Winchester SO22 4BL United Kingdom
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-12409258
- Documents
- 4
- Constraints
- 4
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Nutrient neutrality catchment: River Itchen SACApplies to new homes and overnight accommodation · +1 more
- 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 (21)
flood storage areas, conservation 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, 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.
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