Hello all
Not sure if anyone can help here?
We have a TPO'd oak tree on our neighbours land. They have just had an extension approved and the extension is slightly within the trees RPA as specified by their arboriculturalist. It seems they were allowed to do this because the area of land within the RPA that they are building on is equal to the area of land within the RPA that already had buildings on that are going to be demolished.
Our property is nearer to the tree slightly and so more in the RPA, but also already has buildings within the RPA that were there before it was TPO'd. Could we assume it will be possible to move forward with the planning application based on the fact that as with the neighbours, our encroachment in to the RPA will be no worse (and may actually be slightly better). We would obviously get a tree survey done etc. but we are at the very initial stages of whether we move forward with doing an extension or not and don't want to go too far along the process if it's going to be a no from the off.
The RPA area is 650m2, the neighbours existing area within the RPA is 15m2 and our existing is 29m2. I read somewhere that you can encroach around 20% in to an RPA which would be 130m2 so together we are both far below this?
Not sure if anyone can help here?
We have a TPO'd oak tree on our neighbours land. They have just had an extension approved and the extension is slightly within the trees RPA as specified by their arboriculturalist. It seems they were allowed to do this because the area of land within the RPA that they are building on is equal to the area of land within the RPA that already had buildings on that are going to be demolished.
Our property is nearer to the tree slightly and so more in the RPA, but also already has buildings within the RPA that were there before it was TPO'd. Could we assume it will be possible to move forward with the planning application based on the fact that as with the neighbours, our encroachment in to the RPA will be no worse (and may actually be slightly better). We would obviously get a tree survey done etc. but we are at the very initial stages of whether we move forward with doing an extension or not and don't want to go too far along the process if it's going to be a no from the off.
The RPA area is 650m2, the neighbours existing area within the RPA is 15m2 and our existing is 29m2. I read somewhere that you can encroach around 20% in to an RPA which would be 130m2 so together we are both far below this?
