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Grey House, High Street, Beckley, Oxford

Decided South Oxfordshire P15/S4617/TCA Works to trees in CA

Works: Trees

Decided. The decision notice on the council portal carries the outcome in full, including any conditions.

Proposal

T1 - Horse Chestnut Tree My contractor (Lloyd's Tree Services) came today to carry out the work that you have previously agreed, but on climbing the tree, he discovered an additional problem that had not been spotted on his earlier visit. On the same trunk, just a few feet above the major branch that was to be reduced (i.e. at about 20' in height), he discovered an old wound in the trunk (see attached photo). He inspected this closely and found that the wood within the wound is not good an that overall, thre is less than a third of good wood across the diameter of the trunk. This he considers to be another likely risk of failure at some point and he has recommended that the crown of that trunk should also be reduced by 2.5 to 3 metres, to reduce the weight and wind stress. In view of this additional finding he decided not to carry out the other work today, whilst I sought your approval to this additional work. He wants to be sure that agreement is in place for the total reduction (i.e. that already approved, plus thus this work), so that appropriate balancing of the crown can be carried out at the same time. His view was that some modest reduction of the crown would be necessary to balance the crown for aesthetic reasons. This wound is visible from the road and if you would like to come and make your own visual assessment, I would be happy to meet you there. If you require any additional information, please let me know. I hope that it will be possible to get agreement to this, to enable the work to go ahead later next week. Remarks:

As published by the council, reference P15/S4617/TCA

Application record

Reference
P15/S4617/TCA
Type
Works to trees in CA
Status
Decision Made
Decision
No obj CA works
Received
19 Aug 2015
Validated
19 Aug 2015
Decided
25 Aug 2015

Timeline

Dates from the published record

  1. 19 Aug 2015

    Received by South Oxfordshire

  2. 25 Aug 2015

    Decision issued: No obj CA works

  3. 15 Sep 2026

    Added to PlanIndex

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After the decision

South Oxfordshire has decided this application; the outcome above is the register's own wording and the decision notice on the council portal carries the detail. 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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