Graveyard, All Saints Church, CHURCH LANE, Minstead SO43 7EX Data via plota.co.uk

26/00598CONS - Trees - Conservation Area Approved

Proposal

Prune 1 x Oak tree Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

✓

Received

2 Jun 2026

✓

Validated

3 Jun 2026

✓

Approved

8 Jul 2026

Approved on 8 Jul 2026 · Delegated · Last checked 12 Jul 2026

Documents

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Site constraints 12

Aerodrome safeguarding zoneUnexploded ordnance riskArchaeological interest

Nutrient neutrality catchment: Solent: Includes Chichester and Langstone Harbours SPA/Ramsar, Solent and Southampton Water SPA/Ramsar, Solent Maritime SAC, Portsmouth Harbour SPA/Ramsar

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.

New Forest 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.

Forest Central (South) 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 ↗

2 Article 4 directions

Article 4 Direction Np New Forest Campsite · Article 4 Direction Np New Forest Recreational Campsite. Named permitted development rights are withdrawn here.

An Article 4 direction withdraws particular permitted development rights, so work that would normally need no application needs one here. Not every council has published its directions.

Agricultural land, grade 4

Poor quality farmland, not best and most versatile. 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.

2 listed buildings within 150 m

Nearest: Church of All Saints, Grade I, 7 m away · 1 Grade I, 1 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 2 with distances

7 mChurch of All SaintsGrade I
148 mThe Old CottageGrade II

Historic England ↗

Habitat network: Network Enhancement Zone 1

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

Special area of conservation 259 m away: The New Forest

Work nearby can need a habitats assessment.

Harm to a protected site is only accepted where there is no alternative and an overriding public interest.

Aerodrome safeguarding zoneCouncil record

Recorded by the council for this site.

Council site ↗

Unexploded ordnance riskCouncil record

Recorded by the council for this site.

Council site ↗

Archaeological interestCouncil record

Recorded by the council for this site.

Council site ↗

Also on the record

SSSI 255 m away: The New Forest SSSI.

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 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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Application for discharge of condition 7 of planning permission 23/00776FULL for

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Important details

Council: New Forest (Park)
Application type: Trees - Conservation Area
Postcode: SO43 7EX
Received: 2 Jun 2026
Validated: 3 Jun 2026
Parish: Minstead Parish Council
Case officer: Show
Target decision: 13 Jul 2026
Decision: Raise No Objection
Decision date: 8 Jul 2026
Decision level: Delegated
Applicant: Show
Agent: RH Tree Care

How this decision compares

Decided in 35 days from validation, 7 days slower than New Forest (Park)'s median of 28 for tree and landscaping works. Approved, as 100% of tree and landscaping works here are.

This one35d

Council28d

UK36d

100%decided within 8 weeks

100%approved

459decided in the last year

Plota live figures for tree and landscaping works decided by New Forest (Park) in the last twelve months, from validation. New Forest (Park) decision record →

Consultation & key dates

Alt. reference: PP-14836023
Comments by: 29 Jun 2026
Site or press notice: 2 Jun 2026
Statutory expiry: 29 Jun 2026

New Forest (Park)

Planning Authority Score

3.3/10

Poor

#226 of 296 councils

Relevant to this application:

Other decisions

New Forest (Park) is slower than most councils at deciding householder applications, ranking #254 out of 296. 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

New Forest (Park) decision statistics

Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026

89%

Overall approval rate

Above avg (87%) #136 of 296

92%

Householder approved

Above avg (90%) #160 of 296

45%

Decided in 8 weeks

Below avg (63%) #254 of 296

44%

Extended time limit

Above avg (41%) #180 of 296

75%

Minor dwellings approved

28 decided (1-9 homes)

50%

Major dwellings approved

4 decided (10+ homes)

83%

Change of use approved

18 decided

487

Total decisions

55 refused in the year to March 2026