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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17 Colgrove Welwyn Garden City AL8 6HY
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Council source1 x Sycamore to dismantle in sections to ground level. This is a self set tree & now dominating the front of the property. Its growing over the house and through phone lines causing problems 1 x Beech and 1 x Goat Willow to reduce by approximately 3m in height (to below phone line), reduce width by 1.5m. These are suppressed by the Sycamore and now growing too close to the house
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| Document | Published | Action |
|---|---|---|
| Description: Estate Management Consent formEstateManagementConsentNoPersonalDataForm.pdf (52 kb) | Not published | View |
| Description: Location plan211101ab-d522-4d7d-a4ff-a786e58f8ea5.pdf (405 kb) | Not published | View |
| Description: Tree sketchSketch plan for.pdf (409 kb) | Not published | View |
| Description: Tree photograph1dbo_1d0dce42-fbf4-4a40-ada5-207e77dfc64a.pdf (1507 kb) | Not published | View |
| Description: Tree photograph 2dbo_09372d23-a9a0-4354-bd63-207e7dd3c09a.pdf (1520 kb) | Not published | View |
| Description: Decision NoticeDecision Notice_620232151EMT.pdf (530 kb) | Not published | View |
| Description: Officer ReportDelegated Report_620232151EMT(1).pdf (17 kb) | Not published | View |
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