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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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Mill House Rendcomb Cirencester Gloucestershire GL7 7EY
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Mill House Rendcomb Cirencester Gloucestershire GL7 7EY
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View council mapT1 - Roadside Beech - reduce height by 3m, reduce length of lateral branches by 3m and thin out crown by removing inferior internal growth to provide an overall reduction of 30%.T2 - Roadside Laburnum - Large tree for its species bordering road, causing excessive shading and litter drop into garden and road: Request permission to reduce height by 3m, reduce length of lateral branches by 2m to provide a more light into the gardenT3 - Beech - Large tree in garden, causing excessive shading and litter drop into garden, with outer crown encroaching on adjacent trees: Request permission to reduce height by 4m, reduce length of lateral branches by 3m and thin out crown by removing inferior internal growth to provide and overall reduction of 30%G4 - Group of 3No Alder - Situated on the stream bank, 2 of which have dense crowns (G4.1 & G4.2) and is causing significant shading into the garden. The multi-stemmed Alder (G4.3) has been pollarded in the past and has produced upright growth on unstable pruning points: Request permission to thin out canopy's of G4.1 & G4.2 by approximately 20% by removing internal inferior growth and selected branches creating the outer canopy to let the light through the crown, Request permission the reduce the height of G4.3 by 30% to reduce risk of failure on pollard points and provide more light into the garden.T5 - Willow - Historically pollarded at approximately 8m, the pollard points have decayed creating a complete hollow in the main stem compromising the integrity and stability of the regrowth: Request permission to remove all regrowth and create new pollard points at approximately 6m to enable regrowth,
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| DECISION NOTICEDecision Notice · PDF | 26 Nov 2025 | View |
| SCREENING OPINIONScreening Opinion · PDF | 23 Oct 2025 | View |
| Application FormApplication Form · PDF | 22 Oct 2025 | View |
| SKETCH PLANDrawing | 22 Oct 2025 | View |
| PHOTO T1Photograph | 22 Oct 2025 | View |
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| PHOTO G4Photograph | 22 Oct 2025 | View |
| PHOTO G4.1Photograph | 22 Oct 2025 | View |
| PHOTO G4.2Photograph | 22 Oct 2025 | View |
| PHOTO G4.3Photograph | 22 Oct 2025 | View |
| PHOTO G4.3Photograph | 22 Oct 2025 | View |
| PHOTO T5Photograph | 22 Oct 2025 | View |
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| PHOTO T5Photograph | 22 Oct 2025 | View |
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Understanding planning · 13 min read
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