Staunton Harold Hall The Estate Office Melbourne Road Staunton Harold Leicestershire LE65 1RT Data via plota.co.uk

26/01188/TCA - Notification of works to trees in CA Validated
Trees & landscaping

Proposal

Works to fell 1no Beech Tree (Unprotected tree in a Conservation Area) Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
11 Sept 2026
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Consultation
18 Sept 2026
Decision
Expected by 23 Oct 2026

Under consideration

No decision has been issued yet. Plota predicts a decision between 31 Oct 2026 and 7 Nov 2026, from North West Leicestershire's recent tree and landscaping works.

Comments are open until 9 Oct 2026

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Documents 2

Plans & drawings 1

PDF LOCATION PLAN AND PHOTO Drawing · 11 Sept 2026 View ↗

Application forms 1

PDF APPLICATION FORM - WITHOUT PERSONAL DATA Application Form · 11 Sept 2026 View ↗

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Site constraints 8

7 listed buildings within 150 m of the postcode pin
Nearest: Staunton Harold Hall, Grade I, about 5 m from the postcode pin · 2 Grade I, 2 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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Historic England ↗
Registered park or garden: Staunton Harold Hall
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 ↗
Coal mining development high risk area
Recorded coal mining features at or near the surface. Most planning applications here need a coal mining risk assessment.
From the Mining Remediation Authority, formerly the Coal Authority. The development high risk area marks recorded coal mining features at or near the surface: mine shafts and adits, shallow workings, mine gas and former opencast sites. Most planning applications there need a coal mining risk assessment; householder applications, changes of use and some minor works are exempt. Mine entry positions come from old plans and can be out by several metres, and unrecorded workings can exist anywhere in the coalfield.
Coal mining risk assessments ↗
Staunton Harold 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). 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.
Habitat network: Network Enhancement Zone 2
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 2; Heritage at risk about 59 m away: Chapel of the Holy Trinity, Staunton Harold Park.
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 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
North West Leicestershire
Application type
Notification of works to trees in CA
Postcode
LE65 1RT
Received
11 Sept 2026
Validated
11 Sept 2026
Ward
Worthington & Breedon
Parish
Staunton Harold
Case officer
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Target decision
23 Oct 2026
Applicant
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Agent
Andrew Large Surveyors Ltd

Decision outlook

Day 28 of the 56-day target. North West Leicestershire usually decides tree and landscaping works by day 52.

Day 2828 days to the 56-day target
58%decided within 8 weeks
91%approved
92decided in the last year

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

Public comments

No public comments yet.

Last counted 7 Oct 2026

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Consultation & key dates

Alt. reference
PP-15219533
Planning Portal ref
PP-15219533
Consultation
18 Sept 2026
Comments by
9 Oct 2026
Statutory expiry
23 Oct 2026
Env. assessment
No

Historical activity at this location

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

Within ~100m

Nearby activity

2025 Approved
Staunton Harold Church Melbourne Road Staunton Harold Ashby De La Zouch Leicestershire LE65 1RW
Reduction of 1no Cherry tree to match neighbouring trees and removal of low hanging branc…
25/01183/TCA
2025 Approved
Staunton Harold Church Melbourne Road Staunton Harold Ashby De La Zouch Leicestershire LE65 1RW
Reduction of 1no Cherry tree to match neighbouring trees and removal of low hanging branc…
25/01183/TCA
2024 Approved
Lion Court Staunton Harold Hall Melbourne Road Staunton Harold Ashby De La Zouch Leicestershire LE65 1RT
Removal of 2no Sycamores trees (Unprotected trees in a conservation area)
24/00200/TCA
2024 Approved
Lion Court Staunton Harold Hall Melbourne Road Staunton Harold Ashby De La Zouch Leicestershire LE65 1RT
Removal of 2no Sycamores trees (Unprotected trees in a conservation area)
24/00200/TCA
2023 Approved
Staunton Harold Hall Melbourne Road Staunton Harold Ashby De La Zouch Leicestershire LE65 1RT
Fell and remove Blue Atlas Cedar, Cedrus Atlantica Glauca (Unprotected tree in a conserva…
23/01106/TCA
2023 Approved
Staunton Harold Hall Melbourne Road Staunton Harold Ashby De La Zouch Leicestershire LE65 1RT
Fell and remove Blue Atlas Cedar, Cedrus Atlantica Glauca (Unprotected tree in a conserva…
23/01106/TCA
2020 Approved
Staunton Harold Church Melbourne Road Staunton Harold Ashby De La Zouch Leicestershire LE65 1RW
Alterations to roof coverings above chancel and south aisle
20/01961/LBC
2020 Approved
Staunton Harold Church Melbourne Road Staunton Harold Ashby De La Zouch Leicestershire LE65 1RW
Alterations to roof coverings above chancel and south aisle
20/01961/LBC
2019 Approved
Staunton Harold Hall Melbourne Road Staunton Harold Ashby De La Zouch Leicestershire LE65 1RT
Extension to holiday lodge
19/00894/FUL
2019 Approved
Staunton Harold Hall Melbourne Road Staunton Harold Ashby De La Zouch Leicestershire LE65 1RT
Extension to holiday lodge
19/00894/FUL
North West Leicestershire
Planning Authority Score
4.6/10
Below average
#170 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
Householder decisions

North West Leicestershire is slower than most councils at deciding householder applications, ranking #211 out of 296. 51% of applications have the time limit extended, above the 41% national average. Householder applications are more likely to be approved here than most councils, with a 97% approval rate vs 90% nationally.

More permissive than most councils
97% approved vs 90% nationally
These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance
North West Leicestershire decision statistics
Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026
95%
Overall approval rate
Above avg (87%) #23 of 296
97%
Householder approved
Above avg (90%) #38 of 296
55%
Decided in 8 weeks
Below avg (63%) #211 of 296
51%
Extended time limit
Above avg (41%) #231 of 296
84%
Minor dwellings approved
82 decided (1-9 homes)
100%
Major dwellings approved
16 decided (10+ homes)
97%
Change of use approved
38 decided
555
Total decisions
25 refused in the year to March 2026
Source: MHCLG planning statistics · See full council rankings