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P/TRC/2026/00725 - Tree Works- Conservation Area Approved
Trees & landscaping

Proposal

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Application progress

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Received
3 Feb 2026
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Validated
6 Feb 2026
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Approved
6 Mar 2026

Approved on 6 Mar 2026 · Delegated · Last checked 13 Jul 2026

Documents 8

Decision & officer reports 2

PDF Decision Notice 150kb · 9 Mar 2026 View ↗ PDF Tree Officer Report 83kb · 9 Mar 2026 View ↗

Plans & drawings 1

PDF Sketch plan 587kb · 9 Feb 2026 View ↗

Application forms 1

PDF Application Form - Without Personal Data 373kb · 9 Feb 2026 View ↗

Consultation & comments 1

PDF Consultation Response 23kb · 18 Feb 2026 View ↗

Other documents 3

PDF PL10 3kb · 18 Feb 2026 View ↗ PDF Photographs and photomontages 1870kb · 9 Feb 2026 View ↗ PDF Photographs and photomontages 1810kb · 9 Feb 2026 View ↗

All documents on the council site ↗

Site constraints 7

Dorset National Landscape
Great weight to conserving the landscape; major development restricted.
Previously an area of outstanding natural beauty, which is still the designation in law. Since 2023 authorities must seek to further its purpose, not merely have regard to it.
Symondsbury Conservation Area 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.
2 Article 4 directions
Bridport to LymeRegis 2 · Bridport to LymeRegis 1. Named permitted development rights are withdrawn here.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 3b
Not 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.
4 listed buildings within 150 m
Nearest: The Buildings, Grade II, 25 m away · 1 Grade II*, 3 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.
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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
Radon affected area, class 3.
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, 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
Dorset
Application type
Tree Works- Conservation Area
Postcode
DT6 6HD
Received
3 Feb 2026
Validated
6 Feb 2026
Ward
Bridport Ward
Parish
Symondsbury
Case officer
Show
Decision
Tree Works - CA - Acceptable
Decision date
6 Mar 2026
Decision level
Delegated

How this decision compares

Decided in 28 days from validation, about the council's usual 25 days. 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
2 Mar 2026

Historical activity at this location

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

Within ~100m

Nearby activity

2025 Approved
Ilchester Arms Mill Lane To Miles Cross Symondsbury DT6 6HD
Replacement of Crittall style metal windows with matching windows
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2025 Approved
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Remove payphone (Call box I.D. 01308422006). (Retain telephone kiosk - to be locked).
P/NOTP/2025/00911
2023 Approved
Symondsbury Primary School Duck Street Symondsbury Dorset DT6 6HD
T1 and T2 Ash - Crown raise southern limbs to 6m to clear the building
P/TRC/2023/05512
2023 Approved
Ilchester Arms Mill Lane To Miles Cross Symondsbury Dorset DT6 6HD
T1 Ash - Reduce height by 3.5m and re shape overall crown T2 Birch - Reduce height by 4m…
P/TRC/2023/05302
2022 Approved
2 Billets Mead Symondsbury Dorset DT6 6HA
T1 Willow - Repollard back to previous points (cut size 15cm) - maintenance
P/TRC/2022/05983
2022 Withdrawn
Symondsbury Primary School Duck Street Symondsbury Dorset DT6 6HD
Retain relocation and replacement of oil tank and perimeter fencing around tank. Reinstat…
P/FUL/2022/05148
2021 Approved
Symondsbury Primary School Mill Lane Symondsbury DT6 6HD
Installation of roof mounted solar photovoltaic (PV) panels and associated infrastructure
P/FUL/2021/03942
2021 Approved
Symondsbury Primary School Mill Lane Symondsbury DT6 6HD
Installation of roof mounted solar photovoltaic (PV) panels and associated infrastructure
P/LBC/2021/03943
2019 Approved
RECTORY COTTAGE, MILL LANE TO MILES CROSS, SYMONDSBURY, BRIDPORT, DT6 6HD
External alterations to include replacing flat roof with pitch roof
WD/D/19/001957
2019 Approved
RECTORY COTTAGE, MILL LANE TO MILES CROSS, SYMONDSBURY, BRIDPORT, DT6 6HD
Internal and external alterations to include replacing flat roof with pitch roof, replace…
WD/D/19/001958
2019 Approved
1 BILLETS MEAD, SYMONDSBURY, BRIDPORT, DT6 6HA
Erection of timber framed garden studio.
WD/D/19/000654
2019 Approved
ILCHESTER ARMS, MILL LANE TO MILES CROSS, SYMONDSBURY, BRIDPORT, DT6 6HD
Notification of application for a premises licence
WD/D/19/000392
2018 Approved
2 BILLETS MEAD, SYMONDSBURY, BRIDPORT, DT6 6HA
T1 Corkscrew Willow - Fell T2 Corkscrew Willow - Reduce by 2 metres
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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