Dodington Park Estate Dodington Lane Dodington South Gloucestershire BS37 6SF Data via plota.co.uk
P26/01523/TRE - Works to Trees
Refused
Proposal
Works to fell 1no. Beech Tree (T1) covered by Tree Preservation Order TPO/353 dated 7th December 1983. Data via plota.co.uk
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Received
6 Jul 2026
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Refused
10 Sept 2026
Appeal
Not lodged
Refused on 10 Sept 2026 · Fully Delegated · Last checked 11 Sept 2026
Documents 7
Decision & officer reports 2
Plans & drawings 2
Application forms 1
Other documents 1
Site constraints 8
14 listed buildings within 150 m of the postcode pin
Nearest: Dodington House, Grade I, the postcode pin is inside its outline · 5 Grade I, 1 Grade II*, 8 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.
Show all 14 with distances
- 0 mDodington HouseGrade I
- 22 mPair of Pedestals and Urns About 10 Metres East of Dodington HouseGrade II
- 22 mGarden Ornaments on Terrace South of Dodington HouseGrade II
- 26 mOrangery Attached to North West of Dodington HouseGrade I
- 38 mUrn and Pedestal About 30 Metres West of Dodington HouseGrade II
- 41 mChurch of St MaryGrade I
- 49 mSummer House About 30 Metres South of the Dower HouseGrade II
- 53 mWalls, Piers, Railings, Gates and Overthrow Attached to West of Church of St MaryGrade II
- 58 mBalustrade About 50 Metres West of Dodington HouseGrade II
- 64 mStablesGrade I
- 79 mDower HouseGrade I
- 98 mThe Cascade Building About 80 Metres North East of Dodington House and RailingsGrade II*
- 115 mWalls, Piers and Bridge About 40 Metres West of Entrance to Churchyard of Church of St MaryGrade II
- 139 mBarn About 12 Metres North of StablesGrade II
Green belt: Bath and Bristol
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.
Cotswolds National Landscape
Great weight to conserving the landscape; major development restricted.
Previously an area of outstanding natural beauty, which is still the designation in law. Since 2023 authorities must seek to further its purpose, not merely have regard to it.
Registered park or garden: Dodington House
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.
Tree preservation order
Consent is needed before work on protected trees.
Not every council has published its orders as open data, so no order shown is not proof there is none.
Agricultural land, grade 2
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 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.
Radon affected area, class 6
An estimated 30% or more of homes reach the radon action level. Indicative for the 1 km square, which takes the highest class found in it; a radon test gives the answer for a building.
From the British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency indicative atlas. Under building regulations, as the BRE guide BR 211 (2023) sets out, new buildings and extensions need basic radon protection from class 3 in England and Wales and from class 2 in Scotland, and full protection from class 5. The class at the site itself, from the detailed BGS map, decides which.
Also on the record
National infrastructure project about 1523 m away: Lime Down Solar Project.
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 Planning Inspectorate, 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
- South Gloucestershire
- Application type
- Works to Trees
- Postcode
- BS37 6SF
- Received
- 6 Jul 2026
- Validated
- 6 Jul 2026
- Ward
- Boyd Valley
- Parish
- Dodington Parish Council
- Case officer
- Show
- Target decision
- 31 Aug 2026
- Decision
- Refusal
- Decision date
- 10 Sept 2026
- Decision level
- Fully Delegated
- Applicant
- Show
- Agent
- Lawrence Trees
How this decision compares
Decided in 66 days from validation, 25 days slower than South Gloucestershire's median of 41 for tree and landscaping works. Refused, as 7% of tree and landscaping works here are.
This one66d
Council41d
UK36d
95%decided within 8 weeks
93%approved
288decided in the last year
Plota live figures for tree and landscaping works decided by South Gloucestershire in the last twelve months, from validation. South Gloucestershire decision record →
Public comments
1comment received
1 neutral
Last counted 11 Sept 2026
Consultation & key dates
- Alt. reference
- PP-15064342
- Planning Portal ref
- PP-15064342
- Comments by
- 30 Jul 2026
- Statutory expiry
- 31 Aug 2026
- Env. assessment
- No
Historical activity at this location
23 previous applications on record - archival context, not part of the live application.
This property
Previous applications at this address
2022
Approved
Discharge of condition 2 attached to permission P20/14647/F (Method Statement). Demolitio…
2022
Approved
Non Material Amendment to P20/14647/F for an extension to the approved plant room within…
2022
Approved
Discharge of condition 2 (works contract) attached to Listed Building Consent P20/14652/L…
2022
Approved
Discharge of condition 6 (Sample Panels) attached to planning permission P20/14652/LB. De…
2021
Approved
Discharge of condition 3 (Demolition method) attached to permission P20/14652/LB. Demolit…
2022
Approved
Discharge of condition 12 (EPS license) attached to permission P20/14647/F. Demolition of…
2022
Discharge of condition 8 (detailed design) attached to listed building consent P20/14652/…
2021
Approved
Discharge of Condition 4 - Material Samples Report and Condition 5 - Brick Cleaning Repor…
2021
Approved
Discharge of condition 13 (Construction Traffic Managment Plan) attached to planning perm…
2020
Approved
Demolition of existing plant building and partial demolition of existing cottage. Refurbi…
2020
Approved
Demolition of existing plant building, existing garage and stable building and partial de…
2021
Approved
Works to thin secondary woodland group as per the tree survey covered by TPO348 dated 15/…
2017
Approved
Engineering works associated with re-profiling of landscape topography in Boulton Field
2016
Approved
Discharge of Conditions 2 (Specification and method statements lime), 3 (Sample panels li…
2016
Approved
Application to retain the works carried out for internal and external alterations to refu…
Within ~100m
Nearby activity
2024
Approved
Dodington House Dodington Lane Dodington South Gloucestershire BS37 6SL
Internal alterations to provide a fire escape stair from the second floor bedrooms to the…
2022
Approved
Dodington House Dodington Lane Dodington South Gloucestershire BS37 6SL
Discharge of condition 4 (Floor M13) attached to listed building consent P19/09904/LB. In…
2020
Approved
Dodington House Dodington Lane Dodington South Gloucestershire BS37 6SL
Discharge of condition 3 (a programme of historic building recording and analysis) attach…
2020
Approved
Dodington House Dodington Lane Dodington South Gloucestershire BS37 6SL
Discharge of conditions 2 (Floor Finishes) and 3 (Lime mortar pointing) attached to liste…
2020
Approved
Dodington House Dodington Lane Dodington South Gloucestershire BS37 6SL
Discharge of Condition 4 (jetty brackets) attached to planning permmision P20/03951/LB In…
2020
Approved
Dodington House Dodington Lane Dodington South Gloucestershire BS37 6SL
Internal works to install new stainless steel staircase to West flanking tower.
2020
Approved
Dodington House Dodington Lane Dodington South Gloucestershire BS37 6SL
Discharge of condition 2 (stone sample) attached to permission P19/4307/LB. Internal alte…
2019
Approved
Dodington House Dodington Lane Dodington South Gloucestershire BS37 6SL
Internal alterations to remove the floorboards in Ante Room and install stone flooring.
South Gloucestershire
Planning Authority Score
2.8/10
Poor
#239 of 296 councils
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Householder decisions
South Gloucestershire ranks #178 out of 296 councils for householder decision speed. South Gloucestershire is also one of the strictest councils - it refuses more householder applications than almost any other, with only 83% approved vs 90% nationally.
One of the strictest councils
only 83% approved vs 90% nationally
These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application.
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South Gloucestershire decision statistics
Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026
85%
Overall approval rate
Below avg (87%) #210 of 296
83%
Householder approved
Below avg (90%) #263 of 296
61%
Decided in 8 weeks
Below avg (63%) #178 of 296
45%
Extended time limit
Above avg (41%) #195 of 296
75%
Minor dwellings approved
220 decided (1-9 homes)
93%
Major dwellings approved
15 decided (10+ homes)
84%
Change of use approved
105 decided
1,585
Total decisions
245 refused in the year to March 2026
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