Planning application
St Martins C Of E Primary And Nursery School Younghayes Road Cranbrook Devon EX5 7DT
Works: Trees
Permission granted. Work must normally begin within three years of the decision or the permission lapses.
Proposal
T583, Poplar : to be coppiced to suitable height (rather than flush to ground level), to allow regeneration G1001, Elm : scattered group which includes 16 dead elm stems, trees like to have died from dutch elms disease - not worthy of retention; fell all marked stems to near ground level
As published by the council, reference 25/2071/TRE
Application record
- Reference
- 25/2071/TRE
- Type
- Felling/Lopping (TPO)
- Status
- Approved
- Decision
- Approval with conditions
- Received
- 8 Oct 2025
- Validated
- 8 Oct 2025
- Decided
- 15 Dec 2025
- Ward
- Cranbrook
- Parish
- Cranbrook
- Decision by
- Delegated Decision
- Postcode
- EX5 7DT
Site history
Applications at this address on the East Devon register
This site has had 2 applications since 2025: 1 approved, 0 refused.
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26/1232/CPL Awaiting decision
St Martins C Of E Primary And Nursery School Younghayes Road Cranbrook Devon EX5 7DT
Certificate of proposed lawful development - remove the existing classroom and install a single storey wooden building of slightly larger footprint to provide improved insulation, safeguarding, accessibility, and year round usability; the building will remain in educational use and will not alter the overall use of the site; there will be no new access requirement, however there will be a requirement for an extension of the existing hard standing by approx. 12m2
Timeline
Dates from the published record
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8 Oct 2025
Received by East Devon
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15 Dec 2025
Decision issued: Approval with conditions
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12 Aug 2026
Added to PlanIndex
Documents
Plans, drawings, consultee responses and the officer's report
5 documents on file for this application
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Open the documentsWhat this grant of permission means
East Devon granted permission on 15 December 2025, subject to any conditions on the decision notice. Work must normally begin within three years or the permission lapses. More in our guide to what happens after a planning decision.
About tree works applications
Applications for works to trees cover protected trees: consent under a tree preservation order, or six weeks notice for trees in a conservation area. More in our guide to planning application types.
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