Planning application
4 Park Road, Limpsfield, Oxted, Surrey, RH8 0AL
Works: Trees
Permission granted. Work must normally begin within three years of the decision or the permission lapses.
Proposal
T1) - Copper Beech - Reduce the height by 1 metre, reducing the overall top height from 17 metres high to 16 metres high and the width from 22 metres to 20 metres. The pruning will be carried out using a tracked cherry picker, enabling a sensitive reduction to growth points to keep a balanced natural shape.
As published by the council, reference 2023/223/TPO
Application record
- Reference
- 2023/223/TPO
- Type
- Consent under Tree Preservation Orders
- Status
- Decision Determined
- Decision
- Granted As published: Approved
- Received
- 21 Feb 2023
- Validated
- 21 Feb 2023
- Decided
- 18 Apr 2023
- Ward
- Limpsfield
- Parish
- Limpsfield
- Postcode
- RH8 0AL
Site history
Applications at this address on the Tandridge register
This site has had 3 applications since 2023: 2 approved, 0 refused.
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2026/964 Awaiting decision
4 Park Road, Limpsfield, Oxted, Surrey, RH8 0AL
Erection of two storey rear extension and a detached gym outbuilding
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2026/912/TPO Granted
4 Park Road, Limpsfield, Oxted, Surrey, RH8 0AL
T1. Copper beech: to crown lift the road overhanging branches by 7 metres, this will involve just removing small branch growth and not main branches. because of this highway request and to keep the canopy balanced looking; as the tree is so prominent, the crown lift is to be cut all round the lower canopy, keeping a level cut, again this will be without removing any large branches. To reduce the canopy width all round by 1.5 metres, from 14 metres to 11, this will aid the highway and the property, for which the tree is getting forever bigger To reduce the height from 21 metres to 19 metres
Timeline
Dates from the published record
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21 Feb 2023
Received by Tandridge
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18 Apr 2023
Decision issued: Approved
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22 Aug 2026
Added to PlanIndex
Documents
Plans, drawings, consultee responses and the officer's report
4 documents on file for this application
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Open the documentsWhat this grant of permission means
Tandridge granted permission on 18 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.
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