Cottage On The Common Fair Place Chiselborough Stoke Sub Hamdon Somerset TA14 6TL Data via plota.co.uk

26/01258/TCA - Work to Trees Approved

Proposal

Notification of intent to carry out tree surgery works to G1: One cheesewood to dismantle to ground level and one spindle tree to reshape the crown by up to 1.5m to best aesthetics. One smokebush will be reshaped and two dying cherries to dismantle as close to ground level, T1: One Irish yew to dismantle as close to ground level as possible, G2: One willow-leaf pear to reshape and tidy by 1.5m. The adjacent scrub and self-set trees will be removed and one Portuguese laurel to coppice at approximately 1m, T2: One Magnolia to target prune the extended branches by up to 1.5m and thin the crown by 15%, T3: One ash to remove end weight from overextended branches overhanging the adjacent garages and garden by reducing lower branches by up to 4m within a Conservation Area… Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

Received
2 Jun 2026
Approved
6 Jul 2026

Approved on 6 Jul 2026 · Delegated (Use on Recommendations) · Last checked 11 Jul 2026

Site constraints 4

Nutrient neutrality catchment: Parrett Catchment
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.
Chiselborough 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 3b
Not best and most versatile land (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Predicted from the national soil map. The older provisional map 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.
Not affected
Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 11 September 2026. Historic England, the Environment Agency, Natural England 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

Application type
Work to Trees
Postcode
TA14 6TL
Received
2 Jun 2026
Validated
2 Jun 2026
Ward
COKER
Parish
Chiselborough
Target decision
14 Jul 2026
Decision
Application Permitted
Decision date
6 Jul 2026
Decision level
Delegated (Use on Recommendations)
Applicant
Show
Agent
J A Stewart Tree Surgery

How this decision compares

Decided in 34 days from validation, 4 days faster than South Somerset's median of 38 for tree and landscaping works. Approved, as 97% of tree and landscaping works here are.

92%decided within 8 weeks
97%approved
193decided in the last year

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

Consultation & key dates

Alt. reference
PP-14978819
Env. assessment
No