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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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BIRCHWOOD, SOUTHILL ROAD, CHISLEHURST, BR7 5EE
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BIRCHWOOD, SOUTHILL ROAD, CHISLEHURST, BR7 5EE
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T1 Blue Cedar tree in the rear garden - Remove dead branches and hanging branches. Reduce the extended limbs, back to suitable growing points, from a current branch length of 7m, reducing by 2m, leaving a branch length of 5m. T2 Leaning Yew tree growing behind the Blue Cedar tree - Reduce in order to reduce the weight in the crown, from a branch length of 7m, reducing by 3m, leaving a branch length of 4m, to suitable growing points. (The above work to be carried out on the two sides and front of the tree, leaving the growth towards the train-line).
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| IMG_3446.jpeg | 23 Jun 2025 | View |
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| Conservation Area - Decision Notice · PDF | 17 Nov 2025 | View |
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| Birchwood - Sketch plan - Jun 2025.png | 23 Jun 2025 | View |
| ApplicationFormRedacted.pdf · PDF | 23 Jun 2025 | View |
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