Hampton Hall Cholmondeley Road Hampton Malpas SY14 8JN Data via plota.co.uk

26/03414/TPO - Application to fell/lop TPO trees Awaiting decision

Proposal

2x European Beech trees (T9 and T11) - Fell to ground level. Horse Chestnut (T5) - Remove the large, decayed limb over the road. European Beech (T7) - Remove the hanging dead branch over the road edge and remove deadwood over 20 millimetres to allow the crown to be properly assessed. Group of Common Ash (G5) - Fell the two trees nearest the road identified as Category 4 trees in the survey, due to significant ash dieback and the associated risk. Further recommended works and investigations - European Beech (T3) - Arrange a specialist test to assess the internal condition of the trunk. Scots Pine (T17) - Reduce the tree to a 5m habitat stem, as recommended in the survey. English Oak (T19) - Remove the hanging branch and deadwood over 100mm. Group of Common Ash (G1) - Fell the four dead ash stems to ground level. Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

✓

Received

23 Oct 2026

Decision

Expected by 18 Dec 2026

Under consideration

No decision has been issued yet. Plota predicts a decision between 4 Dec 2026 and 11 Dec 2026, from Chester's recent tree and landscaping works.

Comments are open until 18 Nov 2026

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Documents 2

Statements & assessments 1

PDF TREE SURVEY INCLUDING SKETCH PLAN Document · 23 Oct 2026 View ↗

Application forms 1

PDF Application Form Application Form · 23 Oct 2026 View ↗

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Site constraints 3

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.

Habitat network: Network Expansion Zone

Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.

Also on the record

Priority habitat about 23 m away: Deciduous woodland.

Not affected

Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 27 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 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.