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PL/2026/04884 - Consent under Tree Preservation Orders Approved

Proposal

T1 Ash - Poor vitality and within falling distance of utility cables and road - Fell. T5 Ash - Heavily leaning stem encroaching onto the road - Remove stem. T6 Ash - Low hanging branches encroaching onto the highway. Crown lift to achieve a 5.2 meter clearance from the highway. T7 Hawthorn - Poor crown vitality. Tree is heavily Laden with ivy and is leaning towards the highway. Tree is beginning to encroach onto highway - Fell. G4 Hawthorn, Elder, Elm, Sycamore, and Ash - Low hanging branches encroaching onto the highway - Crown lift to achieve a 5.2 meter clearance from the public highway. T8 Beech - Low hanging branches encroaching onto the public highway - Crown lift to achieve a 5.2 m clearance from the public highway. Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 8 Oct 2026, 01:39

Application progress

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Received

4 Aug 2026

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Approved

22 Sept 2026

Approved on 22 Sept 2026 · Last checked 22 Sept 2026

Documents 3

Site constraints 10

Habitat network: Network Enhancement Zone 2

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

Special area of conservation about 249 m away: Bath & Bradford on Avon Bats

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.

Also on the record

SSSI about 249 m away: Box Mine SSSI; Radon affected area, class 4; National landscape about 245 m away: Cotswolds; 1 listed building within 150 m of the postcode pin; Scheduled monument about 247 m away: MoD CORSHAM: GPO Telephone Exchange; Inside the Rudloe built-up area; Priority habitat about 43 m away: Deciduous woodland; Natural England's Provisional ALC map (1:250,000, 1970s) had this area as grade 3, but it predates the buildings here and the current map does not class it as farmland.

Not affected

Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt

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.

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Important details

Council: Wiltshire
Application type: Consent under Tree Preservation Orders
Received: 4 Aug 2026
Validated: 4 Aug 2026
Ward: Corsham Without ED
Parish: Corsham CP
Case officer: Show
Target decision: 22 Sept 2026
Decision: Approve with Conditions
Decision date: 22 Sept 2026

How this decision compares

Decided in 49 days from validation, 11 days slower than Wiltshire's median of 38 for tree and landscaping works. Approved, as 99% of tree and landscaping works here are.

This one49d

Council38d

UK36d

95%decided within 8 weeks

99%approved

1,246decided in the last year

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

Public comments

2comments received

2 objecting

Last counted 22 Sept 2026

Read the comments on the council site ↗

Consultation & key dates

Comments by: 2 Sept 2026

Wiltshire

Planning Authority Score

3.9/10

Below average

#203 of 296 councils

Relevant to this application:

Householder decisions

Wiltshire is slower than most councils at deciding householder applications, ranking #225 out of 296. The council extends the time limit on 55% 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 (96%) than the national average (90%).

Frequently extends decision deadlines

expect longer than the statutory limit

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

Wiltshire decision statistics

Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026

93%

Overall approval rate

Above avg (87%) #71 of 296

96%

Householder approved

Above avg (90%) #65 of 296

53%

Decided in 8 weeks

Below avg (63%) #225 of 296

55%

Extended time limit

Above avg (41%) #252 of 296

78%

Minor dwellings approved

339 decided (1-9 homes)

90%

Major dwellings approved

48 decided (10+ homes)

92%

Change of use approved

160 decided

3,659

Total decisions

256 refused in the year to March 2026