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25/03045/CAT - Works to Trees in Conservation Area Approved

Proposal

Works to 1no Yew and 1no Apple Tree as specified by Complete Tree Services UK LTD in the North Oxford Victorian Suburb Conservation area. T1 Apple Formative prune to contain by reducing all round to form smaller more compact crown, thin by 10% T2 Yew Restructure the yew by reducing up to 40% to form a smaller more compact crown Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 8 Oct 2026, 18:40

Application progress

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Received

17 Nov 2025

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Consultation

19 Nov 2025

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Approved

15 Dec 2025

Approved on 15 Dec 2025 · Delegated Decision · Last checked 8 Oct 2026

Documents 2

Decision & officer reports 1

PDF Decision Decision · 15 Dec 2025 View ↗

Application forms 1

PDF Application form redacted Application Form · 17 Nov 2025 View ↗

All documents on the council site ↗

Site constraints 10

North Oxford Victorian Suburb 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 ↗

Article 4 direction

Houses in Multiple Occupation Article 4 Direction. Named permitted development rights are withdrawn here.

An Article 4 direction withdraws particular permitted development rights, so work that would normally need no application needs one here. Not every council has published its directions.

Air quality management area: The City of Oxford

The council has declared the area as failing an air quality objective.

Schemes that add traffic, parking or combustion plant are assessed against the area's action plan and may need an air quality assessment.

Council record ↗

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

Special area of conservation about 471 m away: Oxford Meadows; National infrastructure project about 431 m away: East West Rail - Bedford to Cambridge and Western improvements, at pre-application; 2 listed buildings within 150 m of the postcode pin; SSSI about 471 m away: Port Meadow with Wolvercote Common & Green SSSI; Inside the Oxford built-up area; Tree preservation order about 24 m away: Hartley Court Woodstock Road Oxford Oxfordshire OX2 7PF.

Not affected

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

Checked on 2 November 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.

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Important details

Council: Oxford
Application type: Works to Trees in Conservation Area
Received: 17 Nov 2025
Validated: 17 Nov 2025
Ward: Summertown
Case officer: Show
Target decision: 29 Dec 2025
Decision: Raise No Objection
Decision date: 15 Dec 2025
Decision level: Delegated Decision
Applicant: Show
Agent: Margaret Bridle

How this decision compares

Decided in 28 days from validation, about the council's usual 27 days. Approved, as 99% of tree and landscaping works here are.

This one28d

Council27d

UK37d

99%decided within 8 weeks

99%approved

608decided in the last year

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

Public comments

No public comments yet.

Last counted 8 Oct 2026

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Consultation & key dates

Alt. reference: PP-14495239
Planning Portal ref: PP-14495239
Consultation: 19 Nov 2025
Comments by: 10 Dec 2025
Statutory expiry: 29 Dec 2025
Env. assessment: No

Oxford

Planning Authority Score

1.8/10

Poor

#277 of 296 councils

Relevant to this application:

Other decisions

Oxford is slower than most councils at deciding householder applications, ranking #261 out of 296. The council extends the time limit on 57% of applications - one of the highest rates in England. Expect your application to take longer than the standard deadline. Householder applications are slightly less likely to be approved here (89%) than the national average (90%).

Frequently extends decision deadlines

expect longer than the statutory limit

These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance

Oxford decision statistics

Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026

88%

Overall approval rate

Above avg (87%) #159 of 296

89%

Householder approved

Below avg (90%) #205 of 296

43%

Decided in 8 weeks

Below avg (63%) #261 of 296

57%

Extended time limit

Above avg (41%) #259 of 296

61%

Minor dwellings approved

64 decided (1-9 homes)

100%

Major dwellings approved

5 decided (10+ homes)

75%

Change of use approved

117 decided

1,150

Total decisions

140 refused in the year to March 2026