Primrose Cottage 11 Mount Tavy Road Tavistock PL19 9JB Data via plota.co.uk

2780/26/TCA - Works to a Tree in a Conservation Area Within Consultation Period

Proposal

T1: Beech - Crown height reduction by no more than 2.25m. Reduce lateral spread on all four cardinal bearing N S E and W by 1.75 - 2.25 metres throughout. Reason for Works: reduce the amount of shading the tree creates, risk of overhang onto neighbour to West. Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 7 Oct 2026, 11:44

Application progress

✓

Received

5 Oct 2026

Decision

Expected by 30 Nov 2026

Under consideration

No decision has been issued yet. Plota predicts a decision around 13 Nov 2026, from West Devon's recent tree and landscaping works.

Comments are open until 27 Oct 2026

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Documents 3

Plans & drawings 1

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Application forms 1

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Site constraints 9

Flood zone 3, rivers and sea

High chance: a 1 in 100 or greater annual chance from rivers, or 1 in 200 from the sea. Any development here needs a flood risk assessment. Defences are not counted.

The Environment Agency flood map for planning. Homes in zone 3 must also pass the sequential test. Surface water flooding is a separate map.

Flood map ↗

World heritage site: Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape

Nationally designated heritage. Its significance and setting carry great weight.

Registered parks and gardens, battlefields, world heritage sites and protected wrecks are designated heritage assets: harm needs clear and convincing justification.

Historic England ↗

Tavistock conservation area

Demolition needs planning permission and permitted development is restricted.

The council must give weight to preserving or enhancing the area's character and appearance. Not every council has published its boundaries as open data.

Council document ↗

Radon affected area, class 6

An estimated 30% or more of homes reach the radon action level. Indicative for the 1 km square, which takes the highest class found in it; a radon test gives the answer for a building.

From the British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency indicative atlas. Under building regulations, as the BRE guide BR 211 (2023) sets out, new buildings and extensions need basic radon protection from class 3 in England and Wales and from class 2 in Scotland, and full protection from class 5. The class at the site itself, from the detailed BGS map, decides which.

UKHSA radon ↗

Also on the record

7 listed buildings within 150 m of the postcode pin; Flood defence about 12 m from the postcode pin (engineered high ground, designed for a 1 in 25 year flood); Local nature reserve about 458 m away: Tavistock Viaduct Walk; Inside the Tavistock built-up area; Priority habitat about 19 m away: Deciduous woodland.

Not affected

Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 7 October 2026. The pin for this application is the centre of its postcode rather than the building, so distances to nearby designations are measured from the postcode and can be out by the width of the postcode area. Historic England, the Environment Agency, Natural England, the British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency (radon, contains BGS materials © UKRI) and council datasets, Open Government Licence. A boundary can run through a site and the council holds the definitive record: confirm with the council before relying on this.