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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The Royal High School , Lansdown Road, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5SZ
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T397-Fraxinus Excelsior-Fell due to advance stages of Hymenoscyphus Fraxineus T66 - Pinus sylvestris - Reduce lateral branch of crown but 1m leaving cuts no bigger than 50mm maintaining height of 18m and radialspread of 5m - To reduce wind loading on declining tree. T764 - Acer pseudoplatanus - Crown reduce northwest side of crown over car park by 1m to reduce weight on lateral branches leaving height of 10m and radial spread of 8m - The tree is showing signs of retrenchment and the work is to reduce the longer laterals over the carpark to reduce the risk of failure. T3518 - Pinus nigra - Reduce lowest lateral south facing branch by 2m (maintaining hight of 16m and radial spread of 6m) - due to extensive weight on branch and to reduce the risk of failure. T4240-Fagus Sylvatica-Reduce South side of tree over lawned area by no more than 3m(cuts no bigger than 50mm)leaving height of 22m and radial spread of 10m-Due to excessive loading on lateral branches on South side of tree, the work is to mitigate against branch failure. T400-Salix Caprea-Coppice leaving a height of 1m-due to area being used by the school for woodland aactivities and the tree having multiple split and snapped branches. T665-Tilia x Europa-reduce lateral branches by 2m to leave height of 23m and radial spread of 5m-to reduce loading on main union of tree.
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