Land At The Water Meadow Arlington Bibury Gloucestershire Data via plota.co.uk

26/01430/TCONR - Works to trees in conservation areas Approved

Proposal

Sycamore - remove squirel damaged branches Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 24 Aug 2026, 08:58

Application progress

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Received

7 May 2026

✓

Approved

14 May 2026

Approved on 14 May 2026 · Delegated Decision · Last checked 5 Jul 2026

Documents 2

Decision & officer reports 1

PDF DECISION NOTICE Decision Notice · 14 May 2026 View ↗

Application forms 1

PDF Application Form Application Form · 7 May 2026 View ↗

All documents on the council site ↗

Site constraints 6

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.

Agricultural land, grade 3b

Not 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.

Habitat network: Network Expansion Zone

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 3; Conservation area about 73 m away: Bibury Conservation Area; 1 listed building within 150 m of the postcode pin.

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 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: Cotswold
Application type: Works to trees in conservation areas
Postcode: GL7 5NH
Received: 7 May 2026
Validated: 7 May 2026
Ward: Coln Valley
Parish: Bibury
Case officer: Show
Decision: No objection
Decision date: 14 May 2026
Decision level: Delegated Decision

How this decision compares

Decided in 7 days from validation, 21 days faster than Cotswold's median of 28 for tree and landscaping works. Approved, as 99% of tree and landscaping works here are.

This one7d

Council28d

UK36d

97%decided within 8 weeks

99%approved

757decided 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-14914318
Planning Portal ref: PP-14914318
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