Keepers Cottage Mill Lane Abbots Worthy Hampshire SO21 1DS Data via plota.co.uk

SDNP/26/01587/TCA - Tree in a Conservation Area Approved

Proposal

T1 - apple - cut back and rehsape by up to 2m. (Amended) Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received

21 Apr 2026

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Approved

27 May 2026

Approved on 27 May 2026 · LA Delegated Decision · Last checked 5 Jul 2026

Documents 2

Decision & officer reports 1

PDF DECISION Decision · 27 May 2026 View ↗

Application forms 1

PDF APPLICATION FOR TREE WORKS Application Form · 21 Apr 2026 View ↗

All documents on the council site ↗

Site constraints 11

10 listed buildings within 150 m of the postcode pin

Nearest: 6 and 7, Mill Lane, Grade II, about 5 m from the postcode pin · 10 Grade II

The site itself is not listed. Listed building consent is needed for work that affects the special interest of a listed building, inside or out, on top of planning permission. Setting can be a consideration for buildings nearby; there is no fixed radius.

Show all 10 with distances

5 m6 and 7, Mill LaneGrade II
26 mKeepers CottageGrade II
42 mMill HouseGrade II
47 m3, Mill LaneGrade II
73 m1 and 2, Mill LaneGrade II
108 mOld FarmhouseGrade II
122 mAbbots Worthy MillGrade II
134 mThe HurstGrade II
134 mNorth and North East Boundary Wall and Gatepiers at Abbots Worthy HouseGrade II
144 mKitchen Garden Wall and Adjoining Melon/Mushroom House, Formerly to Abbotsworthy HouseGrade II

Historic England ↗

Nutrient neutrality catchment: Solent: Includes Chichester and Langstone Harbours SPA/Ramsar, Solent and Southampton Water SPA/Ramsar, Solent Maritime SAC, Portsmouth Harbour SPA/Ramsar

New homes and overnight accommodation must show nutrient neutrality before approval.

Natural England advice: extra wastewater in these catchments harms protected habitats, so schemes must offset their nutrient load, usually through credits.

South Downs National Park

The park authority decides applications here. Great weight to conserving the landscape; major development restricted.

Landscape, scenic beauty and wildlife carry great weight, and major development is only allowed in exceptional circumstances.

Abbots Worthy 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.

Agricultural land, grade 3a

Best and most versatile land (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Source: the Predictive Agricultural Land Classification Map (Defra and Natural England, 2025; the Welsh Government's Predictive ALC Map 2 in Wales), a model rather than a site survey. Natural England's Provisional ALC map (1:250,000, 1970s) 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.

Special area of conservation about 107 m away: River Itchen

Work nearby can need a habitats assessment.

Harm to a protected site is only accepted where there is no alternative and an overriding public interest.

National infrastructure project about 328 m away: M3 Junction 9 Improvement

The site is about 328 m from the project boundary. Highway, decided. The project page says whether consent was granted.

Nationally significant infrastructure projects (power stations, electricity lines, pipelines, major roads and railways, harbours, airports and reservoirs) are consented by a Secretary of State under the Planning Act 2008, after an examination by the Planning Inspectorate, rather than by the council. The boundary is the one the Inspectorate consults on and can change as the scheme does. Projects are shown within 2 km of the site.

Planning Inspectorate project page ↗

Habitat network: Network Enhancement Zone 2

Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.

SSSI about 100 m away: Alresford Pond SSSI

Natural England may need consulting, depending on what is proposed.

Sites of special scientific interest are the best wildlife and geological sites in the country. Development likely to harm one is rarely permitted.

Also on the record

Radon affected area, class 2; Nature improvement area: South Downs Way Ahead.

Not affected

Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 6 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 Planning Inspectorate, 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.

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Important details

Council: South Downs
Application type: Tree in a Conservation Area
Postcode: SO21 1DS
Received: 21 Apr 2026
Validated: 21 Apr 2026
Ward: The Worthys Ward
Parish: Kings Worthy Parish Council
Case officer: Show
Target decision: 2 Jun 2026
Decision: Raise No Objection
Decision date: 27 May 2026
Decision level: LA Delegated Decision
Applicant: Show
Agent: Show

How this decision compares

Decided in 36 days from validation, 7 days faster than South Downs's median of 43 for tree and landscaping works. Approved, as 97% of tree and landscaping works here are.

This one36d

Council43d

UK36d

76%decided within 8 weeks

97%approved

445decided in the last year

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