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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Anne Hathaways Cottage Cottage Lane Shottery Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 9HH
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Council source-T1 wych elm - Remove split limb. -T2 Malus - Reduce apical stems x2no. to the south/east by 0.5metres. -T3 silver birch - Selectively reduce/remove branches with decay pockets back to suitable growth points. -T4 Malus - Fell or monolith at 3metres. -T9 weeping willow - Fell. -T10 Bhutan pine - Reduce height of western co-dominant stem by 5-6 metres and reduce eastern co-dominant stem by 2metres. -T11 common lime - Fell. -T12 crack willow - Reduce eastern and southern primary limbs by 4metres and rebalance. -T13 crack willow - Pollard at 3-4 metres. -T14 ash - Reduce branch over footpath by 3metres, pruning back to suitable growth point. -T15 horse chestnut - Reduce large limbs to north and south over brook by 3-4 metres to suitable growth points. -T16 horse chestnut - Reduce crown of stem extending over brook by 3-4 metres. -T17 horse chestnut - Reduce to a 6-8 metre monolith. -T18 pedunculate oak - Remove hung up limb. -T20 ash - Crown reduction by 4-5 metres, pruning back to suitable growth points. -T21 silver maple - Monolith at 2-3 metres. -G1, Malus x2no. - Monolith at 2metres. -G2, hybrid black poplar x2no. - Re-pollard poplar nearest house to previous pollard points and pollard poplar (western tree) nearest woodland boundary to 5metres. -G3 Norway spruce x7no. and hawthorn x1no. - Fell and replant. -G4, weeping willow x2no. - Phased pollarding to 6-8 metres. -G5, crack willows x2no. - Pollard at 4 metres.
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