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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80 Valley Road Welwyn Garden City AL8 7DP
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80 Valley Road Welwyn Garden City AL8 7DP
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Formative prune 1 x Apple tree (T1) Fell 1 x Buddleia (T2) Reduce 1 x Beech branch (T3) by 2.5m as affecting apple tree Fell 1 x Conifer hedge (G1) covered by conservation area
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| Description: Application form redactedApplicationFormRedacted.pdf (95 kb) | Not published | View |
| Description: Tree SketchTree location.png (779 kb) | Not published | View |
| Description: Decision Notice PDFDecision Notice_620212553TC.pdf (23 kb) | Not published | View |
| Description: Officer ReportDelegated Report_620212553TC(1).pdf (15 kb) | Not published | View |
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