80 Spetchley Road Worcester WR5 2NL

26/00343/TPOATree preservation order application (works to)Approved

Approved on 20 May 2026

Council decision: ApprovalDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

T1 Beech tree - Fell to ground level in order to remove the risk of personal injury or collateral damage to the owners and general public.

Received: 21 April 2026
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Council: Worcester City Council
Ward: Nunnery Ward

ReceivedReceived21 Apr
ValidatedValidated21 Apr
Consult.Consultation
TargetTarget Date
DecidedDecided20 May

Decided in 29 days (council typically 42)

About this application

This is a tree application at 80 Spetchley Road Worcester WR5 2NL. Worcester has handled 216 applications of this type. This one was decided in 29 days, 13 days quicker than Worcester's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 26 applications across Nunnery Ward. We hold 514 applications in total for the WR5 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: WR5 2NL
Application type: Tree preservation order application (works to)
Scale / size: Small
Parish: Worcester City

Planning application dates

Date validated: 21 April 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent address: 9 Bullfinch Close Worcester WR5 3SL

Additional information

Documents: 2

Site constraints

Checking the site

2/3

Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

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 (22)

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, 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.

Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Worcester

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