Park House Street Through Souldern Souldern OX27 7LA Data via plota.co.uk

26/02229/TCA - Works To Trees In Conservation Area Case Officer Assigned
Trees & landscaping

Proposal

T1 – Cedar: Reduce and prune back the lateral branches and secondary growth extending over the boundary into St Joseph’s, to suitable growth points. Works confined to the overhanging portions of the crown on the St Joseph’s side of the boundary. No felling or overall crown reduction proposed. Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
24 Aug 2026
Decision
Expected by 19 Oct 2026

This application is under consideration - no decision has been issued yet. Plota predicts a decision around 4 Oct 2026, from Cherwell's recent tree works.

Documents 4

Other documents 4

PDF Application Documents Document · 1 Sept 2026 View ↗ IMG Application Documents Document · 1 Sept 2026 View ↗ IMG Application Documents Document · 1 Sept 2026 View ↗ PDF Case Correspondence Document · 1 Sept 2026 View ↗

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Site constraints 3

Souldern 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 2
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 3. 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 1
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
Cherwell
Application type
Works To Trees In Conservation Area
Postcode
OX27 7LA
Received
24 Aug 2026
Validated
24 Aug 2026
Ward
Deddington
Parish
Souldern

Decision outlook

Day 21 of the 56-day target. Cherwell usually decides tree works by day 41.

Day 2135 days to the 56-day target
86%decided within 8 weeks
97%approved
193decided in the last year

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

Historical activity at this location

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

Within ~100m

Nearby activity

2025
St Josephs High Street Souldern Bicester OX27 7LA
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25/02739/F
2025
St Josephs High Street Souldern Bicester OX27 7LA
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2025
St Josephs High Street Souldern Bicester OX27 7LA
PART RETROSPECTIVE - Various minor alterations including insertion of air bricks to redun…
25/02739/F
2025
St Josephs High Street Souldern Bicester OX27 7LA
PART RETROSPECTIVE - Various minor alterations including insertion of air bricks to redun…
25/02740/LB
2025 Approved
St Josephs High Street Souldern OX27 7LA
T8 x Almond Tree - fell to ground. T13 x Apple edible - fell to ground.
25/00547/TCA
2025 Approved
St Josephs High Street Souldern OX27 7LA
T8 x Almond Tree - fell to ground. T13 x Apple edible - fell to ground.
25/00547/TCA
2024 Approved
Little Slam High Street Souldern OX27 7JP
T1 x Crab Apple – Proposal to crown reduce by 0.75-1metre in height and laterally to bala…
24/03106/TCA
2024 Approved
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24/03106/TCA
2024
Souldern Manor Bates Lane Souldern OX27 7JT
T1 - Sycamore x Proposal to reduce Eastern crown over neighbours boundary, by 2.5/3 metre…
24/03293/TCA
2024
Souldern Manor Bates Lane Souldern OX27 7JT
T1 - Sycamore x Proposal to reduce Eastern crown over neighbours boundary, by 2.5/3 metre…
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2024 Approved
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Change current sash windows to front facade with new sash windows in same material - only…
24/01754/F
2024 Approved
Nutcracker Cottage High Street Souldern Bicester OX27 7JP
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24/01754/F
2024
Timber Cottage High Street Souldern OX27 7JP
T1 Apple formative prune, and crown lift to 1.8 meters over road. G1 Mixed species, fell…
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2024
Timber Cottage High Street Souldern OX27 7JP
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St Josephs High Street Souldern Bicester OX27 7LA
New Air Source Heat Pump; re-instatement of the original opening to the external wall to…
24/01761/F
2024 Approved
St Josephs High Street Souldern Bicester OX27 7LA
New Air Source Heat Pump; re-instatement of the original opening to the external wall to…
24/01762/LB
2024
Souldern Manor Bates Lane Souldern OX27 7JT
These trees are affected by Hornet Moth (Sesia Apiformis), resulting in past failures of…
24/00731/TCA
2024
Souldern Manor Bates Lane Souldern OX27 7JT
These trees are affected by Hornet Moth (Sesia Apiformis), resulting in past failures of…
24/00731/TCA
2016 Approved
Barn House High Street Souldern Bicester OX27 7JP
T1 x Ash - Crown Lift to provide 5 m clearance from ground level by reducing/removing sec…
16/00130/TCA
2016 Approved
Cedar House Souldern Bicester OX27 7LA
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16/00996/F
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Garden Cottage Bates Lane Souldern Bicester OX27 7JT
G1 x Sycamore - Reduce height on the north boundary to a height of up to 5.0m.
16/00132/TCA
2016 Approved
St Josephs High Street Souldern Bicester OX27 7LA
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Cherwell
Planning Authority Score
3.6/10
Below average
#214 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
Other decisions

Cherwell is slower than most councils at deciding householder applications, ranking #247 out of 296. 49% of applications have the time limit extended, above the 41% national average. Householder applications are slightly more likely to be approved here (94%) than the national average (90%).

Slower than most councils
for householder decisions
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Cherwell decision statistics
Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026
92%
Overall approval rate
Above avg (87%) #77 of 296
94%
Householder approved
Above avg (90%) #101 of 296
47%
Decided in 8 weeks
Below avg (63%) #247 of 296
49%
Extended time limit
Above avg (41%) #218 of 296
77%
Minor dwellings approved
117 decided (1-9 homes)
95%
Major dwellings approved
19 decided (10+ homes)
96%
Change of use approved
47 decided
1,091
Total decisions
90 refused in the year to March 2026
Source: MHCLG planning statistics · See full council rankings