Club House Old Watery Lane Lytchett Minster BH16 6HZ Data via plota.co.uk

P/TRC/2026/00741 - Tree Works- Conservation Area Approved
Trees & landscaping

Proposal

G1 Hawthorn and Willow, - Remove Hawthorn adjacent to the service pole., - Pollard the Willow inside the entrance gate to previous points., G3 Mixed trees, - Fell all small trees to ground level located along the boundary separating the two fields., G4 Mixed trees, - Prune all lateral growth growing towards the pitches and flood lights by no more than 3m from the tips inwards. Ensuring that all cuts are brought back to viable growth points., - Fell the Willow to ground level., G5 Mixed trees, - Thin saplings to create clear definitive groups., G6 Mixed trees, - Reduce and thin the group by no more than 30% in height., - Raise the crowns to 3m from ground level. Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
10 Feb 2026
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Approved
11 Mar 2026

Approved on 11 Mar 2026 · Delegated · Last checked 13 Jul 2026

Documents 2

Decision & officer reports 2

PDF Decision Notice 152kb · 11 Mar 2026 View ↗ PDF Tree Officer Report 84kb · 11 Mar 2026 View ↗

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Site constraints 10

Green belt: South West Hampshire
Inappropriate development needs very special circumstances.
Green belt policy allows a short list of exceptions, such as limited extensions and replacement buildings. Anything else needs very special circumstances that clearly outweigh the harm. Some green belt land can count as grey belt, where it does not strongly serve the green belt's purposes. The council decides this in its green belt assessment or on each application, so we do not mark it here.
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Nutrient neutrality catchment: Poole 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.
In flood zones plus climate change
Inside the extent flood zones 2 and 3 could reach with climate change: the Central allowance for the 2080s on rivers, the Upper End allowance for sea level rise to 2125. From the sea. Defences are not counted.
The Environment Agency flood map for planning. Councils use it to decide when a flood risk assessment and the sequential test are needed. It is indicative and does not show whether a particular property will flood.
Flood map ↗
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 Enhancement Zone 1
Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.
Ramsar wetland 254 m away: Poole Harbour
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 268 m away: Poole Harbour SSSI; Nature improvement area: Wild Purbeck; 1 listed building within 150 m; Conservation area 94 m away: Lytchett Minster Conservation Area.
Not affected
Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · 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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Important details

Council
Dorset
Application type
Tree Works- Conservation Area
Postcode
BH16 6HZ
Received
10 Feb 2026
Validated
10 Feb 2026
Ward
Lytchett Matravers and Upton Ward
Parish
Lytchett Minster and Upton
Case officer
Show
Decision
Tree Works - CA - Acceptable
Decision date
11 Mar 2026
Decision level
Delegated

How this decision compares

Decided in 29 days from validation, 4 days slower than Dorset's median of 25 for tree and landscaping works. Approved, as 95% of tree and landscaping works here are.

99%decided within 8 weeks
95%approved
1,636decided in the last year

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

Consultation & key dates

Comments by
3 Mar 2026

Historical activity at this location

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

Within ~100m

Nearby activity

2025 Approved
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Dorset
Planning Authority Score
7.5/10
Good
#44 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
Other decisions

Dorset is faster than most councils at deciding householder applications, ranking #51 out of 296. Householder applications are slightly more likely to be approved here (95%) than the national average (90%).

Faster than most councils
for householder decisions
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Dorset decision statistics
Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026
92%
Overall approval rate
Above avg (87%) #80 of 296
95%
Householder approved
Above avg (90%) #74 of 296
78%
Decided in 8 weeks
Above avg (63%) #51 of 296
35%
Extended time limit
Below avg (41%) #102 of 296
81%
Minor dwellings approved
344 decided (1-9 homes)
85%
Major dwellings approved
40 decided (10+ homes)
76%
Change of use approved
85 decided
2,781
Total decisions
233 refused in the year to March 2026
Source: MHCLG planning statistics · See full council rankings