Skip to content
PlanIndex Get alerts
Menu

Planning application

85 Fore Street Topsham Exeter Devon EX3 0HQ

Granted Exeter 23/0350/CAT Works to Trees in a Conservation Area

Works: Trees

Permission granted. Work must normally begin within three years of the decision or the permission lapses.

Proposal

Fell of a large Bay tree. The Bay tree is 25ft in height and is dominating the rear garden.

As published by the council, reference 23/0350/CAT

Application record

Reference
23/0350/CAT
Type
Works to Trees in a Conservation Area
Status
Permitted
Decision
Permitted
Received
13 Mar 2023
Validated
13 Mar 2023
Decided
4 Apr 2023
Ward
Topsham
Postcode
EX3 0HQ

Timeline

Dates from the published record

  1. 13 Mar 2023

    Received by Exeter

  2. 4 Apr 2023

    Decision issued: Permitted

  3. 12 Aug 2026

    Added to PlanIndex

Documents

Plans, drawings, consultee responses and the officer's report

4 documents on file for this application

A planning file usually holds the application form, drawings and site plans, consultee responses, the officer's report and the decision notice.

Trade members open them from here.

Open the documents

What this grant of permission means

Exeter granted permission on 4 April 2023, 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.

Nearby applications

Within 500 metres

  • 86 Fore Street Topsham EX3 0HQ

    25/1236/PDCD Submitted 11 Sep 2025 12m away

    Change of use of ground floor cafe (Class E) to residential (Class C3) and amalgamate with the apartment above to create a single dwelling house.

    Granted Prior approval 14 docs
    Domestic
  • 82 Fore Street Topsham EX3 0HQ

    24/0712/FUL Submitted 22 Jun 2024 13m away

    Replacement roof, raise rear pitched roof, replace all windows and access door and repair chimney.

    Granted Full applications Roofing Windows or glazing 15 docs
  • 82 Fore Street Topsham EX3 0HQ

    25/1595/FUL Submitted 11 Nov 2025 13m away

    Retrospective application to remove chimney, increase the size of front dormer and enlargement, change of colour of windows

    Refused Full applications Loft or dormer Windows or glazing 11 docs
  • 86A Fore Street Topsham EX3 0HQ

    26/0295/FUL Submitted 2 Mar 2026 17m away

    82% historically approved · decision due ~3 Jun

    Ground floor rear extension, new windows and doors.

    Awaiting decision Full applications Extension Windows or glazing 10 docs
  • Matthews Hall Fore Street Topsham EX3 0HF

    24/1122/NMA Submitted 27 Sep 2024 31m away

    Reduction in footprint/height and change in external materials

    Granted Amendments 6 docs
  • Follett Orchard Follett Road Topsham EX3 0JP

    24/0970/CAT Submitted 27 Aug 2024 33m away

    Removal of 23 year old Leylandii tree that I planted in error. I intend to replant with something more suitable to cover ugly wall. It is too big and becoming uncontrollable and is near a boundary that could damage wall of adjacent out buildings and is casting shade over their gardens. It is a cupressocyparis Leyland Cypress.

    Granted Trees 8 docs

In Exeter

  • 26/1332/CAT Awaiting decision

    8 Marlborough Road Exeter EX2 4TJ

    T1 - Contorted Willow - Reduce in height by 2.5 metres, and reshape the crown by 0.5-1 metre, leaving a balanced form.

    2 Sep 2026 Trees
  • 26/1319/CAT Awaiting decision

    Stoneycombe Matford Road Exeter EX2 4PE

    Please see Plan attached. This plan was submitted with a similar application on 7 October 2020. T 1 was felled in 2020. T2 and T3 were pollarded. T2 and T3 require pollarding again because of their proximity to the house. See detail on plan.) T3 is already touching the house and over the roof.

    1 Sep 2026 Trees
  • 26/1311/CAT Awaiting decision

    11 Devonshire Place Exeter EX4 6JA

    The tree is a Cypress tree located at the front of 11 Devonshire place, to the right hand side when looking at the house. We would like to replace the tree with a native tree species - either a rowan or a cherry - in order to provide flowers for pollinators in the spring/summer and food for birds in the winter. We would like to do the removal in late (~Nov) 2026, well after the bird breeding season, in order to plant the new tree in early 2027 after the last frosts. The tree itself sits at the boundary of a conservation area.

    30 Aug 2026 Trees
  • 26/1312/CAT Awaiting decision

    11 Devonshire Place Exeter EX4 6JA

    The tree is a silver birch. We would like to carry out "crown reduction" reducing the height of the tree from ~10m to ~7m. Similarly, we would like to reduce the spread of the crown at the rear to reduce the amount of overhang with our rear neighbours. We will keep the left-right spread similar, only carrying out "crown thinning" in this respect to ensure the tree does not block too much light from our neighbours' gardens and our own.

    30 Aug 2026 Trees
  • 26/1291/CAT Awaiting decision

    Electricity Distribution Site Parkfield Road Topsham

    Mixture of bay and cherry large shrubs to remove, which have become overgrown in the contained area next to the electricity sub station. We have removed what we can so far, but need approval to remove the rest, as they are around 5 inches at waist height. Plan to remove fully as no remedial value where they are located. Approx 20 stems to remove WHAT3WORDS is stow.poetic.skills

    26 Aug 2026 Trees