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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8 Forest Road Poole BH13 6DH
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T2 Silver Birch. Reasons for works - Encroaching onto the front of the house and phone line. Proposed works - Reduce and remove secondary and tertiary branches to obtain a clearance of 2m from the house to the closest foliage. Clear the phone line to give a 0.5 m clearance around the phone lines. T6 Purple plum. Reasons for works - Over mature and heavily encroaching onto no. 8 and no. 10 Forest road. Proposed works - Fell to ground level. No scope for replanting between the buildings. Suggest replant with silver birch – 2m container grown on the rear boundary. T9 Robinia. Reasons for works - Tree is in heavy decline with central stem dead and partially removed in the past. Tree of low amenity value. Proposed works - Fell to ground level. Replant with 1 x mountain ash – 2m container grown. T13. Robinia. Reasons for works - Heavily suppressed tree, three quarters dead. Tree of low amenity value. Proposed works - Fell to ground level. No scope for replanting in this location as crowded with other trees above.
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