Prowtings Winchester Road , Alton , Chawton , Alton , GU34 1SD Data via plota.co.uk
EHDC-26-0823-TCA - Trees in a conservation area applications
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Proposal
X3 Trees Requiring work Tree 1 - Lime - to be felled - new tree can be planted in its place. Tree 2 - Lime - Reduce height by 30% including cutting back overhanging branches from boundary affecting cottage next door. Tree 3 - Copper Beech - Crown reduction by 30% Data via plota.co.uk
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Received
28 Jul 2026
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Approved
11 Sept 2026
Approved on 11 Sept 2026 · Delegated · Last checked 30 Sept 2026
Documents 16
Decision & officer reports 2
Plans & drawings 1
Other documents 13
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Application E-mail
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Report for Ivy Cottage
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Image 5259 - Separate tree
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Photograph Tree 1e
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Photograph Tree 1d
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Photograph Tree 1c
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Photograph Tree 1b
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Photorgraph Tree 1
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Photograph Tree 1a
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Photograph Tree 3a
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Photograph Tree 3
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Photograph Tree 2a
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Photograph Tree No 2
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Site constraints 9
Flood zone 2, rivers and sea
Medium chance: between a 1 in 100 and 1 in 1,000 annual chance from rivers, or 1 in 200 to 1 in 1,000 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.
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.
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.
Public footpath about 20 m away
Matters where it crosses or adjoins the site: obstructing a path without a diversion order is an offence, and work cannot start until the order is confirmed.
Compiled from highway authority data, not the legal definitive map. A few authorities have not published, so no path shown is not proof there is none.
11 listed buildings within 150 m of the postcode pin
Nearest: Ivy Cottage, Grade II, about 6 m from the postcode pin · 1 Grade I, 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 11 with distances
- 6 mIvy CottageGrade II
- 8 mClinkersGrade II
- 20 mContent, Stencott, the Cottage, and the VillageGrade II
- 33 mBakehouse and Stables 20 Metres North of Jane Austen's HouseGrade II
- 34 mJane Austen's HouseGrade I
- 101 mPond CottagesGrade II
- 104 mThe Dower HouseGrade II
- 117 mChawton LodgeGrade II
- 125 mBaigensGrade II
- 127 mSpringfield, Nos 1 and 2Grade II
- 146 mThatch CottageGrade II
Habitat network: Network Enhancement Zone 1
Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.
Radon affected area, class 5
An estimated 10 to 30% of homes reach the radon action level. Indicative for the 1 km square, which takes the highest class found in it; a radon test gives the answer for a building.
From the British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency indicative atlas. Under building regulations, as the BRE guide BR 211 (2023) sets out, new buildings and extensions need basic radon protection from class 3 in England and Wales and from class 2 in Scotland, and full protection from class 5. The class at the site itself, from the detailed BGS map, decides which.
Registered park or garden about 75 m away: Chawton House
Its setting is a consideration for work nearby.
Registered parks and gardens, battlefields, world heritage sites and protected wrecks are designated heritage assets: harm needs clear and convincing justification.
National infrastructure project about 917 m away: Southampton to London Pipeline Project
The site is about 917 m from the project boundary. Pipeline, 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.
Not affected
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
- East Hampshire
- Application type
- Trees in a conservation area applications
- Postcode
- GU34 1SD
- Received
- 28 Jul 2026
- Validated
- 28 Jul 2026
- Ward
- Four Marks & Medstead
- Parish
- Chawton CP
- Case officer
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- Target decision
- 8 Sept 2026
- Decision
- NO OBJECTION
- Decision date
- 11 Sept 2026
- Decision level
- Delegated
- Applicant
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How this decision compares
Decided in 45 days from validation, 13 days faster than East Hampshire's median of 58 for tree and landscaping works. Approved, as 95% of tree and landscaping works here are.
This one45d
Council58d
UK36d
46%decided within 8 weeks
95%approved
308decided in the last year
Plota live figures for tree and landscaping works decided by East Hampshire in the last twelve months, from validation. East Hampshire decision record →
Consultation & key dates
- Comments by
- 20 Aug 2026
- Statutory expiry
- 8 Sept 2026
Historical activity at this location
25 nearby applications on record - archival context, not part of the live application.
Within ~100m
Nearby activity
2025
Ivy Cottage Winchester Road Chawton Alton Hampshire GU34 1SD
Retrospective application for a Change of use of an existing outbuilding to provide both…
2024
Approved
Chawton Forge Winchester Road Chawton Alton Hampshire GU34 1SD
Eucalyptus in rear garden to be removed. It appears to be dying back and is close to gard…
2023
Approved
Jane Austen's House Winchester Road Chawton Alton Hampshire GU34 1SD
Listed building consent - The proposed works to Jane Austen's House Museum Outbuildings i…
2022
Approved
Prowtings Winchester Road Chawton Alton Hampshire GU34 1SD
Refurbishment, partial demolition, conversion and extension of existing outbuilding into…
2023
Approved
Oriel House Winchester Road Chawton Alton Hampshire GU34 1SL
Proposed detached 2 bay oak frame garage, with log store.
2023
Approved
Ivy Cottage Winchester Road Chawton Alton Hampshire GU34 1SD
Extension to existing outbuilding.
2023
Approved
Ivy Cottage Winchester Road Chawton Alton Hampshire GU34 1SD
Listed building consent - Extension to existing outbuilding.
2022
Approved
Chawton Village Hall Winchester Road Chawton Alton Hampshire GU34 1SD
Lime (T-1),(T-2),(T-3) crown raise to 5 metres, this will allow vehicles to park in the c…
2021
Approved
Merrivale Winchester Road Chawton Alton Hampshire GU34 1SB
Demolition of existing side elevation porch and erection of two storey side extension
2021
Approved
Rose Cottage Winchester Road Chawton Alton Hampshire GU34 1SB
T6 Lime - Crown lift to 5 metres. T9 Ash - Crown lift to 5 metres. T10 Beech - Crown lift…
2021
Approved
Rose Cottage Winchester Road Chawton Alton GU34 1SB
T2 Rowan in the front garden - Fell. T3 Cypress in the rear garden and adjacent to the so…
2021
Withdrawn
Merrivale Winchester Road Chawton Alton Hampshire GU34 1SB
Dropped kerb, driveway, off road parking and part demolition of the front boundary wall (…
2020
Approved
Chawton Forge Winchester Road Chawton Alton GU34 1SD
Leylandii -1 - Fell - Roots exposed out of earth bank on property boundary and now liftin…
2020
Approved
Sten Cottage Winchester Road Chawton Alton GU34 1SB
T1 Prunus - Fell. T2 Prunus - Fell. T3 Prunus - Lift lower laterals, reduce limbs in uppe…
2020
Approved
Prowtings Winchester Road Chawton Alton GU34 1SD
T1 Copper Beech - Lift lower laterals which are encroaching on the main building structur…
2020
Approved
Merrivale Winchester Road Chawton Alton Hampshire GU34 1SB
Meeting - 24/6/2020Off road parking for 1-2 cars to the side of the property and to erect…
2019
Approved
Rose Cottage Winchester Road Chawton Alton Hampshire GU34 1SB
Ash Tree in the north east corner of the garden and within G1 of TPO (EH 274 1992 - Crown…
2019
Approved
Rose Cottage Winchester Road Chawton Alton Hampshire GU34 1SB
Yew Tree - prune back to give 60cms clearance from northern boundary and to give 1m clear…
2019
Approved
Jane Austen's House Winchester Road Chawton Alton GU34 1SD
Listed Building Consent - Repair to the external wall of the museum shop and to the museu…
2019
Approved
Prowtings Winchester Road Chawton Alton Hampshire GU34 1SD
T1 - Lime tree - Reduce South/south westerly canopy by 2 - 3 metres to give clearance fro…
2017
Approved
Jane Austen's House Winchester Road Chawton Alton Hampshire GU34 1SD
Yew 1 - Crown lift to 2 metres (from ground level) and also prune all the way to the top…
2017
Clinkers Winchester Road Chawton Alton Hampshire GU34 1SD
new rear extension to listed building, internal alterations, new window and new rooflights
2017
Approved
Rose Cottage Winchester Road Chawton Alton GU34 1SB
Detached double garage with storage above
2016
Approved
Rose Cottage Winchester Road Chawton Alton Hampshire GU34 1SB
Two storey side extension and conversion of loft into habitable accommodation, to include…
2016
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Jane Austen's House Winchester Road Chawton Alton Hampshire GU34 1SD
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East Hampshire
Planning Authority Score
1.5/10
Poor
#282 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
Other decisions
East Hampshire is one of the slowest councils in England for householder decisions, ranking #293 out of 296. The council extends the time limit on 72% 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 (91%) than the national average (90%).
Among the slowest councils in England
for householder decisions
These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application.
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East Hampshire decision statistics
Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026
88%
Overall approval rate
Above avg (87%) #153 of 296
91%
Householder approved
Above avg (90%) #173 of 296
24%
Decided in 8 weeks
Below avg (63%) #293 of 296
72%
Extended time limit
Above avg (41%) #288 of 296
63%
Minor dwellings approved
72 decided (1-9 homes)
78%
Major dwellings approved
9 decided (10+ homes)
88%
Change of use approved
24 decided
606
Total decisions
72 refused in the year to March 2026
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