Tomkins Park And Arboretum Elmfields Gate Winslow Buckinghamshire Data via plota.co.uk

Decided 24/03032/ATP
Date received
around 8 Oct 2024
Date validated
8 Oct 2024

Description

There are several Leylandii conifer trees in Tomkins Arboretum in Winslow, which are very close to our boundary and are now overhanging our property. Others are severely affecting and disturbing the growth and available light of our own trees. See Cluster 1 with Trees 1 to 3 marked (to the North in the Web map), and Cluster 2 (Trees 1 to 5 marked), in the photographs and the Web map attached. They were planted very close together and as a result have stunted the growth of both themselves (most have just growth on one side), and other adjacent mature trees. Most of these conifers appear to be dead or dying, constantly dropping cones and cone debris, covered with ivy, and with some beginning to lean at an ever increasing angle towards our property, which if they did fall, could result in serious and expensive damage to our house and surroundings. Removing the overhanging branches would in most cases reduce the trees to a single bare trunk (due to most of them having growth on just one side), which would be visually unacceptable. The request is to fell these trees, which would give the adjacent, more significant trees in the area, more room to fully establish and mature and at the same time, prevent future damage to our house and surroundings. Data via plota.co.uk

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Site constraints 5

Also on the record
Conservation area about 33 m away: Winslow; National infrastructure project about 668 m away: East West Rail - Bedford to Cambridge and Western improvements, at pre-application; Inside the Winslow built-up area; Priority habitat about 35 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 · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 17 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 Planning Inspectorate 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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Buckinghamshire decision statistics
Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026
84%
Overall approval rate
Below avg (87%) #217 of 296
86%
Householder approved
Below avg (90%) #241 of 296
34%
Decided in 8 weeks
Below avg (63%) #280 of 296
55%
Extended time limit
Above avg (41%) #248 of 296
76%
Minor dwellings approved
491 decided (1-9 homes)
82%
Major dwellings approved
71 decided (10+ homes)
82%
Change of use approved
131 decided
4,446
Total decisions
690 refused in the year to March 2026