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PLN/2025/2567 - Consent under Tree Preservation Orders Approved

Proposal

The reduction by approx. 2m to branches touching the mast only to provide 2 metre between mast and leaf. Shape of bush will be maintained of Willow tree protected by Milton Keynes Council Tree Preservation Order no. Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 24 Aug 2026, 08:59

Application progress

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Received

1 Dec 2025

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Validated

23 Jan 2026

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Approved

18 Mar 2026

Approved on 18 Mar 2026 · Delegated Decision · Last checked 23 Aug 2026

Documents 5

Site constraints 4

Article 4 direction

Article 4 Direction relating to Houses in Multiple Occupation (HIMO) - Non immediate direction. Named permitted development rights are withdrawn here.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 3a

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

National infrastructure project about 904 m away: East West Rail - Bedford to Cambridge and Western improvements, at pre-application.

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 Planning Inspectorate 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: Milton Keynes
Application type: Consent under Tree Preservation Orders
Received: 1 Dec 2025
Validated: 23 Jan 2026
Ward: Danesborough & Walton (Historic 2026)
Parish: Wavendon (Historic 2026)
Case officer: Show
Target decision: 20 Mar 2026
Decision: Approved with Conditions
Decision date: 18 Mar 2026
Decision level: Delegated Decision
Applicant: Show
Agent: Ground Control Ltd - 664891

How this decision compares

Decided in 54 days from validation, 12 days slower than Milton Keynes's median of 42 for tree and landscaping works. Approved, as 92% of tree and landscaping works here are.

This one54d

Council42d

UK36d

87%decided within 8 weeks

92%approved

192decided in the last year

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

Public comments

1comment received

1 neutral

Last counted 23 Aug 2026

Read the comments on the council site ↗

Historical activity at this location

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

Within ~100m

Nearby activity

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2022 Refused

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Certificate of Lawfulness for a proposed front porch extension.

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2022 Approved

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Milton Keynes

Planning Authority Score

7.1/10

Good

#59 of 296 councils

Relevant to this application:

Householder decisions

Milton Keynes is faster than most councils at deciding householder applications, ranking #52 out of 296. Only 28% of applications have the time limit extended, well below the 41% national average - the council usually decides on time. Householder applications are slightly more likely to be approved here (92%) than the national average (90%).

Faster than most councils

for householder decisions

These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance

Milton Keynes decision statistics

Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026

88%

Overall approval rate

Above avg (87%) #156 of 296

92%

Householder approved

Above avg (90%) #159 of 296

78%

Decided in 8 weeks

Above avg (63%) #52 of 296

28%

Extended time limit

Below avg (41%) #45 of 296

55%

Minor dwellings approved

66 decided (1-9 homes)

83%

Major dwellings approved

23 decided (10+ homes)

71%

Change of use approved

49 decided

1,088

Total decisions

134 refused in the year to March 2026

Pumping Station, Newport Road, Wavendon Data via plota.co.uk

Proposal

Application progress

Documents 5

Decision & officer reports 2

Plans & drawings 1

Application forms 1

Other documents 1

Site constraints 4

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