Understanding planning · 13 min read
Planning application documents: what to read first
Understand planning application documents, officer reports and decision notices. Use a reading checklist, document table and worked example to inspect a case.
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20 Gloucester Road, Lower Swainswick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7BJ
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T1 and T2 - Horse Chestnuts - To be reduced removing up to 4m of growth by selectively removing limbs. Leave new furnishing growth for an overall crown reduction of around 2m. To include lifting crowns to 5.2m over highway (removing small sapling nearest Oriel gardens) and to the same height over driveway to enable access. T3 and T4 - Horse chestnuts - to be reduced by 2m as per previous reduction points T5- Horse chestnut - To be reduced removing up to 4m of growth by selectively removing limbs. Leave new furnishing growth for an overall crown reduction of around 2m. To include lifting crown to 5.2m over driveway to enable access.
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