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23 Shrubbery Road Worcester WR1 1QR

25/00819/CANTree works within a conservation areaApproved

Approved on 5 November 2025

Council decision: ApprovalDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

T1 - 1 x silver birch - reduce height by approx 25%, from 18m to 13.5m, minor reduction of side branches to rebalance shape. Crown lift to give clearance from ground level to approx 3.5m

Received
16 September 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Arboretum Ward
  1. Received16 Sep
  2. Validated29 Sep
  3. Consult.20 Oct
  4. Target
  5. Decided5 Nov

Decided in 37 days (council typically 42)

About this application

This is a tree application at 23 Shrubbery Road Worcester WR1 1QR. Worcester has handled 216 applications of this type. This one was decided in 50 days, 8 days longer than Worcester's typical decision time. The site is in the Shrubbery Avenue conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 40 applications across Arboretum Ward. We hold 206 applications in total for the WR1 postcode area.

94% of trees applications at Worcester City Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 6 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
WR1 1QR
Application type
Tree works within a conservation area
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Worcester City

Planning application dates

Date validated
29 September 2025
Consultation expiry
20 October 2025
Consultation start
29 September 2025
Consultation end
20 October 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
6 Spring Bank Hindlip Worcester WR3 8SD

Additional information

Documents
4

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: Shrubbery Avenue
  • 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.

© 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: Worcester

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