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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View council mapT1- Quercus robur (English oak) Front left boundary: - Prune to clear 3x telephone wires to provide a .5m clearance (Or as much as is possible without removing primary branches) removing no more than 1.5m from a radial spread of 21m to 19.5m. All pruning cuts to to be limited to smaller secondary branches.T2- Quercus robur (English oak) Rear garden close to house: - Reduce Southern crown spread by 2m from 7m to 5m. - Reduce 1x secondary hanging branch in the upper Western crown, that is almost touching the roof, back to point of attachment removing no more than 2m.- Reduce low secondary branches in the Eastern crown, that are almost touching the Taxus baccata 'fastigiata', by 2m from 7m to 5m.- Reduce 1x over extended secondary branch in the Northern crown, that is almost touching the neighbours roof, back to point of attachment removing no more than 2m.T3- Large multi stemmed Castanea sativa (Sweet chestnut) coppice on the rear right boundary:- Reduce in height by 3m from 20m to 17m and average radial spread by no more than 3m from 19m to 16m.
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| CASE OFFICER REPORTCase Officer Report | 24 Jul 2023 | View |
| TREES FELL/ PRUNE - APPR WITH CONDITIONSDecision Notice · PDF | 24 Jul 2023 | View |
| REDACTEDApplication Form · PDF | 10 May 2023 | View |
| TREE LOCATION PLANDrawings | 10 May 2023 | View |
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Understanding planning · 13 min read
Understand planning application documents, officer reports and decision notices. Use a reading checklist, document table and worked example to inspect a case.
Understanding planning · 13 min read
Understand pending consideration, approved, refused and withdrawn planning applications. Compare status labels and find the documents explaining each outcome.
Understanding planning · 13 min read
Read planning drawings, floor plans, elevations and sections. Use labelled diagrams, a drawing comparison table and revision checks to understand a proposal.