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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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Bedford Square St Giles London WC1B 3JA
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(TPO REF: A3) IN SQUARE GARDENS: 1 x London Plane (Platanus x hispanica) (T85) - Reduce specified limb(s) - reducing the lowest limb to the east, suspected to be subsiding by around 2.5m, effectively crown lifting the tip of the limb to 4.5m, to reduce loading and extension over the footpath and minimise the potential for limb failure onto footpath. 1 x London Plane (Platanus x hispanica) (T86) - Reduce specified limb(s) - reducing the suspected subsiding, extended limbs to the south at 13m and to the east at 14m, over footpaths and lawn, to reduce loading and extension over the footpath and minimise the potential for limb failure. 1 x Holly (Ilex aquifolium) (T109) - Prune from adjacent structure to clear lamp column by 1m. 3 x London Planes (Platanus x hispanica) (T92, T95 & T84) - Prune from adjacent structure to clear lamp column by 1.5m.
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