Wooded Land Off Abeford Road Ridge Road Micklefield Leeds LS25 3DQ Data via plota.co.uk

26/00617/TR - Tree Works Approved
Trees & landscaping

Proposal

T1 Common Ash: Proposed work fell. G11 Elm: Proposed work fell. Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
5 Feb 2026
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Approved
20 Mar 2026

Approved on 20 Mar 2026 · Delegated Decision · Last checked 5 Jul 2026

Documents 6

Decision & officer reports 2

PDF APPROVED TREE WORKS Decision · 20 Mar 2026 View ↗ PDF TREE WORKS OFFICER REPORT Report · 20 Mar 2026 View ↗

Plans & drawings 1

IMG SKETCH PLAN Drawing · 2 Feb 2026 View ↗

Application forms 1

PDF AMENDMENT : APPLICATION FORM - WITHOUT PERSONAL DATA Application Form · 4 Feb 2026 View ↗

Other documents 2

PDF ACKNOWLEDGEMENT BackGround Papers · 12 Feb 2026 View ↗ PDF PHOTOS BackGround Papers · 10 Feb 2026 View ↗

All documents on the council site ↗

Site constraints 8

Green belt: South and West Yorkshire
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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Registered park or garden: Parlington Estate
Nationally designated heritage. Its significance and setting carry great weight.
Registered parks and gardens, battlefields, world heritage sites and protected wrecks are designated heritage assets: harm needs clear and convincing justification.
Historic England ↗
Public footpath about 11 m away
Matters where it crosses or adjoins the site: obstructing a path without a diversion order is an offence, and work cannot start until the order is confirmed.
Compiled from highway authority data, not the legal definitive map. A few authorities have not published, so no path shown is not proof there is none.
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), 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.
1 listed building within 150 m of the postcode pin
Nearest: Wakefield Lodge, including entrance gate piers and attached estate wall, Parlington Estate, Grade II, about 53 m from the postcode pin
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.
Historic England ↗
Also on the record
Radon affected area, class 3; Coalfield, development low risk area; Priority habitat about 23 m away: Deciduous woodland.
Not affected
Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · 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 Mining Remediation Authority, 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
Leeds
Application type
Tree Works
Postcode
LS25 3DQ
Received
5 Feb 2026
Validated
5 Feb 2026
Ward
Harewood
Parish
Aberford And District Parish Council
Target decision
2 Apr 2026
Decision
Approved
Decision date
20 Mar 2026
Decision level
Delegated Decision
Applicant
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How this decision compares

Decided in 43 days from validation, 19 days slower than Leeds's median of 24 for tree and landscaping works. Approved, as 90% of tree and landscaping works here are.

96%decided within 8 weeks
90%approved
838decided in the last year

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

Consultation & key dates

Statutory expiry
2 Apr 2026
Env. assessment
No

Historical activity at this location

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

Within ~100m

Nearby activity

2025
Wakefield Lodge Aberford Road Aberford Leeds LS25 3DQ
Listed building application for replacement of 8 timber windows
25/06451/LI
2025 Refused
Wakefield Lodge Aberford Road Aberford Leeds LS25 3DQ
Listed building application for repair and replace all of the windows on the property.
25/04262/LI
2019 Approved
Wakefield Lodge Aberford Road Aberford Leeds LS25 3DQ
Listed Building application for replacement windows
19/03752/LI
Leeds
Planning Authority Score
5.3/10
Average
#131 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
Householder decisions

Leeds is faster than most councils at deciding householder applications, ranking #95 out of 296. Householder applications are slightly less likely to be approved here (85%) 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
Leeds decision statistics
Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026
83%
Overall approval rate
Below avg (87%) #238 of 296
85%
Householder approved
Below avg (90%) #249 of 296
73%
Decided in 8 weeks
Above avg (63%) #95 of 296
33%
Extended time limit
Below avg (41%) #78 of 296
70%
Minor dwellings approved
208 decided (1-9 homes)
86%
Major dwellings approved
36 decided (10+ homes)
68%
Change of use approved
279 decided
3,681
Total decisions
613 refused in the year to March 2026
Source: MHCLG planning statistics · See full council rankings