Edwyn Ralph, Hampton, Edwyn House Edwyn Ralph Bromyard Herefordshire HR7 4LY Data via plota.co.uk

Refused P260768/J - Works to trees covered by TPO

Trees & landscaping

Council

Herefordshire 3.3/10

Date received

12 Mar 2026

Date validated

12 Mar 2026

Decision date

23 Apr 2026

Postcode

HR7 4LY

Type

Works to trees covered by TPO

Description

The Monterey Cyprus. To remove it completely, as it is too close to the house. To replace it with a native species of tree further away from the house to prevent a similar problem arising. Data via plota.co.uk

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Last checked 4 Sept 2026, 21:49

How this decision compares

Decided in 42 days from validation, 6 days slower than Herefordshire's median of 36 for tree and landscaping works. Refused, as 6% of tree and landscaping works here are.

This one42d

Council36d

UK36d

98%decided within 8 weeks

94%approved

301decided in the last year

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

Site constraints 4

Nutrient neutrality catchment: River Wye SAC (River Lugg SSSI)

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.

Agricultural land, grade 2

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), which most planning maps still show, had this area as grade 3. The predicted grade is Defra's current estimate; only a site survey settles it.

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 Enhancement Zone 2

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

Also on the record

Radon affected area, class 2.

Not affected

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

Checked on 6 October 2026. 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.

Sales history 2

Last sold for £850,000 in March 2021. Detached house, freehold.

26 March 2021£850,000

17 December 2014£631,000

Sale prices from HM Land Registry's price paid record, matched to this application by its address.

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Herefordshire

Planning Authority Score

3.3/10

Poor

#224 of 296 councils

Relevant to this application:

Householder decisions

Herefordshire is slower than most councils at deciding householder applications, ranking #250 out of 296. The council extends the time limit on 60% of applications - one of the highest rates in England. Expect your application to take longer than the standard deadline. Householder applications are slightly more likely to be approved here (95%) than the national average (90%).

Frequently extends decision deadlines

expect longer than the statutory limit

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Herefordshire decision statistics

Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026

93%

Overall approval rate

Above avg (87%) #56 of 296

95%

Householder approved

Above avg (90%) #79 of 296

46%

Decided in 8 weeks

Below avg (63%) #250 of 296

60%

Extended time limit

Above avg (41%) #269 of 296

89%

Minor dwellings approved

278 decided (1-9 homes)

67%

Major dwellings approved

18 decided (10+ homes)

92%

Change of use approved

104 decided

1,406

Total decisions

96 refused in the year to March 2026