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26/01174/TCONR - Works to trees in conservation areas Approved

Proposal

1 - Flowering Cherry - reduce by 2.5m to tidy 2 - Evergreen shrub - trim to tidy 3 - Silver Birch - reduce height by approx. 3-4m and shape 4 - Ivy-clad Silver Birch - remove to above-ground level 5 - Fruit tree (dead) - remove 6 - Elderberry (dead) - remove 7 - Tree group - reduce by 2-3m 8 - Fruit tree (dead) - remove 9 - Magnolia - reduce by 1.5m 10 - Tree - reduce by 50% 11 - Hazel (Dead) - remove 12 - Fruit tree (in decline) - remove 13 - Fruit tree (dead) - remove 14 - Fruit tree (in decline) - remove 15 - Fruit tree - reduce by 3m 16 - Fruit tree (in decline) - remove 17 - Fruit tree - reduce by 3m 18 - Fruit tree (in decline) - remove 19 - Fruit tree (in decline) - remove 20 - Fruit tree (in decline) - remove 21 - Fruit tree (dead) - remove 22 - Shrub - remove… Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

Received
13 Apr 2026
Approved
14 May 2026

Approved on 14 May 2026 · Delegated Decision · Last checked 6 Jul 2026

Site constraints 5

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 ↗
Cotswolds National Landscape
Great weight to conserving the landscape; major development restricted.
Previously an area of outstanding natural beauty, which is still the designation in law. Since 2023 authorities must seek to further its purpose, not merely have regard to it.
Upper Slaughter Conservation Area 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 ↗
Agricultural land, grade 3b
Not best and most versatile land (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Predicted from the national soil map. The older provisional map agrees.
Where development of farmland is needed, policy prefers poorer land over the best and most versatile (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Three sources: Natural England's post-1988 field surveys, which are definitive where they exist; the Defra predictive map for England (2025) and the Welsh Government predictive map, modelled from the soil map with 3a and 3b split; and the 1970s provisional map, which planners and other services still show, coarser and with grade 3 undivided. Where the provisional and predicted grades disagree, treat the predicted grade as the current estimate and expect an application to carry its own survey.
Habitat network: Network Expansion Zone
Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.
Not affected
Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 11 September 2026. Historic England, the Environment Agency, Natural England 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.

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Important details

Council
Cotswold
Application type
Works to trees in conservation areas
Postcode
GL54 2JB
Received
13 Apr 2026
Validated
13 Apr 2026
Ward
Bourton Vale
Parish
Upper Slaughter
Case officer
Show
Decision
No objection
Decision date
14 May 2026
Decision level
Delegated Decision
Applicant
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How this decision compares

Decided in 31 days from validation, about the council's usual 28 days. Approved, as 98% of tree and landscaping works here are.

96%decided within 8 weeks
98%approved
522decided in the last year

Plota live figures for tree and landscaping works decided by Cotswold in the last twelve months, from validation. Cotswold decision record →

Consultation & key dates

Alt. reference
PP-14846364
Comments by
24 Apr 2026
Env. assessment
No
Cotswold
Planning Authority Score
3.5/10
Below average
#218 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
Other decisions

Cotswold is slower than most councils at deciding householder applications, ranking #219 out of 296. 48% of applications have the time limit extended, above the 41% national average. Householder applications are slightly more likely to be approved here (92%) than the national average (90%).

Slower than most councils
for householder decisions
These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance
Cotswold decision statistics
Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026
89%
Overall approval rate
Above avg (87%) #128 of 296
92%
Householder approved
Above avg (90%) #150 of 296
53%
Decided in 8 weeks
Below avg (63%) #219 of 296
48%
Extended time limit
Above avg (41%) #212 of 296
74%
Minor dwellings approved
123 decided (1-9 homes)
74%
Major dwellings approved
23 decided (10+ homes)
84%
Change of use approved
38 decided
1,252
Total decisions
138 refused in the year to March 2026