Issue - meetings

DEFERRED

Description of application - T1 Horse Chestnut – Fell, T4 Holly – Fell, T5 Holly – Fell, T6 Holly – Fell, Fell all Sycamores less than 10cm in diameter, Crown lift all trees in woodland to 3m, SUBJECT TO TPO 109 (A1).

Oral representations from Ward Member, Councillor Kate Lymer, in objection to the application were received at the meeting. She had been approached by residents’ groups who feared the application was a precursor to development and had visited the poorly maintained site. The horse chestnut tree (T1) was protected and she requested that an arboriculture report be undertaken together with a wildlife study as bats were present.  Councillor Lymer’s view was that if the horse chestnut tree proved to be diseased and required felling then it should be replaced with a horse chestnut tree with a tree preservation order placed on it.

Members having considered the report, objections and representations, RESOLVED that THE APPLICATION BE DEFERRED, without prejudice to any future consideration for AN ARBORICULTURAL REPORT AND WILDLIFE STUDY TO BE CARRIED OUT.