Swan Cottage Church Road Stoke Hammond Buckinghamshire MK17 9BP Data via plota.co.uk

PL/26/01520/KA - Works to trees in Conservation Area Refused
Trees & landscaping

Proposal

Reduce sycamore branches overhanging property boundary by 3 metres. (Stoke Hammond Conservation Area) Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
18 Mar 2026
✓
Consultation
20 Mar 2026
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Refused
16 Apr 2026
Appeal
Not lodged

Refused on 16 Apr 2026 · Delegated Decision · Last checked 12 Jul 2026

Documents 1

Decision & officer reports 1

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Site constraints 8

Habitat network: Network Expansion Zone
Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.
6 listed buildings within 150 m of the postcode pin
Nearest: Swan Cottage, Grade II, about 31 m from the postcode pin · 1 Grade II*, 5 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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Historic England ↗
Conservation area about 6 m away: Stoke Hammond
The edge of the area; work outside it can still affect its setting.
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 ↗
Also on the record
National infrastructure project about 358 m away: The Grand Union Canal Transfer, at pre-application; Inside the Stoke Hammond built-up area; Tree preservation order about 26 m away; Open access land about 31 m away: Access Land - Combined Open Country, Registered Common Land and Section 16 Dedicated Land. MoD Byelaw, Section 28 Exclusions, Racecourses and Aerodromes and ECP Margin have been removed.; 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 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 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.

Sales history 1

Last sold for £485,000 in May 2008. Detached house, freehold.

27 May 2008£485,000

Sale prices from HM Land Registry's price paid record, matched to this application by its address.

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Important details

Council
Buckinghamshire
Application type
Works to trees in Conservation Area
Postcode
MK17 9BP
Received
18 Mar 2026
Validated
18 Mar 2026
Ward
Newton Longville
Parish
Stoke Hammond
Case officer
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Target decision
29 Apr 2026
Decision
A TPO to control work -unpreserved in CA
Decision date
16 Apr 2026
Decision level
Delegated Decision
Applicant
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How this decision compares

Decided in 29 days from validation, 13 days faster than Buckinghamshire's median of 42 for tree and landscaping works. Refused, as 9% of tree and landscaping works here are.

81%decided within 8 weeks
91%approved
928decided in the last year

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

Consultation & key dates

Consultation
20 Mar 2026
Comments by
10 Apr 2026
Statutory expiry
29 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

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Buckinghamshire
Planning Authority Score
1.3/10
Poor
#284 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
Other decisions

Buckinghamshire is one of the slowest councils in England for householder decisions, ranking #280 out of 296. 55% of applications have the time limit extended, above the 41% national average. Householder applications are slightly less likely to be approved here (86%) than the national average (90%).

Among the slowest councils in England
for householder decisions
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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
Source: MHCLG planning statistics · See full council rankings

Sale prices: Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.