Manor Cottage Manor Farm Lane Balscote OX15 6JJ Data via plota.co.uk

26/01294/TCA - Works To Trees In Conservation Area Approved
Trees & landscaping

Proposal

T1 Holm Oak - crown thin 15%, reduce 0.5 - 1 metre max to cut out previous poor pruning Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
21 May 2026
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Approved
23 Jun 2026

Approved on 23 Jun 2026 · Last checked 8 Sept 2026

Documents 6

Decision & officer reports 2

PDF Decision Document · 24 Jun 2026 View ↗ PDF Officer Report Document · 23 Jun 2026 View ↗

Other documents 4

PDF Application Document Document · 26 May 2026 View ↗ PDF Application Documents Document · 26 May 2026 View ↗ PDF Application Documents Document · 26 May 2026 View ↗ PDF Case Correspondence Document · 26 May 2026 View ↗

All documents on the council site ↗

Site constraints 6

Balscote 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 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) 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 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 6
An estimated 30% or more 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.
UKHSA radon ↗
13 listed buildings within 150 m of the postcode pin
Nearest: The Old Rectory, Grade II, about 37 m from the postcode pin · 1 Grade II*, 12 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.
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Historic England ↗
Also on the record
Priority habitat about 36 m away: Traditional orchard.
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.

Sales history 1

Last sold for £390,000 in May 2001. Detached house, freehold.

24 May 2001£390,000

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

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Important details

Council
Cherwell
Application type
Works To Trees In Conservation Area
Postcode
OX15 6JJ
Received
21 May 2026
Validated
21 May 2026
Target decision
2 Jul 2026
Decision
Permitted
Decision date
23 Jun 2026

How this decision compares

Decided in 33 days from validation, 5 days faster than Cherwell's median of 38 for tree and landscaping works. Approved, as 96% of tree and landscaping works here are.

90%decided within 8 weeks
96%approved
396decided in the last year

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

Historical activity at this location

25 nearby applications on record - archival context, not part of the live application.

Within ~100m

Nearby activity

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2024 Approved
Home Farm Middle Lane Balscote OX15 6JP
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2023 Approved
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2023 Approved
Swallows Barn Manor Farm Lane Balscote Oxfordshire OX15 6JJ
T1 x Judas tree - removal, multi-stemmed tree had one stem fail due to decay at the base…
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2023 Approved
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2023 Approved
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Cherwell
Planning Authority Score
3.6/10
Below average
#214 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
Other decisions

Cherwell is slower than most councils at deciding householder applications, ranking #247 out of 296. 49% of applications have the time limit extended, above the 41% national average. Householder applications are slightly more likely to be approved here (94%) 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
Cherwell decision statistics
Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026
92%
Overall approval rate
Above avg (87%) #77 of 296
94%
Householder approved
Above avg (90%) #101 of 296
47%
Decided in 8 weeks
Below avg (63%) #247 of 296
49%
Extended time limit
Above avg (41%) #218 of 296
77%
Minor dwellings approved
117 decided (1-9 homes)
95%
Major dwellings approved
19 decided (10+ homes)
96%
Change of use approved
47 decided
1,091
Total decisions
90 refused in the year to March 2026
Source: MHCLG planning statistics · See full council rankings

Sale prices: Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.