Bere Alston Railway Station Bere Alston PL20 7ES Data via plota.co.uk

0727/26/TCA - Works to a Tree in a Conservation Area Approved

Proposal

See tree survey report for works to: T021a, T022, T023, T025, T026a, T027, T028, T029a, T030a, T031a. Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received

17 Mar 2026

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Approved

15 Apr 2026

Approved on 15 Apr 2026 · Last checked 8 Sept 2026

Documents

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Site constraints 4

Tamar Valley 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.

Tavistock and Bere Alston Railway Line 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 ↗

Agricultural land, grade 3b

Not best and most versatile land (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Predicted from the national soil map. The older provisional map, which most planning maps still show, had this area as grade 2. The predicted grade is Defra's current estimate; only a site survey settles it.

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 2

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

Not affected

Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 11 September 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: West Devon
Application type: Works to a Tree in a Conservation Area
Postcode: PL20 7ES
Received: 17 Mar 2026
Validated: 17 Mar 2026
Ward: Bere Ferrers
Parish: Bere Ferrers
Case officer: Show
Decision: Approved
Decision date: 15 Apr 2026
Applicant: Show
Agent: Greenman Environmental Management

How this decision compares

Decided in 29 days from validation, 10 days faster than West Devon's median of 39 for tree and landscaping works. Approved, as 85% of tree and landscaping works here are.

This one29d

Council39d

UK36d

98%decided within 8 weeks

85%approved

56decided in the last year

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