Milne House Main Street Ashendon Buckinghamshire HP18 0HB Data via plota.co.uk

PL/26/00606/KA Approved

Proposal

G1 Silver Birch x4 - reduce crown height to approximately 1m below utility lines. T1 - Spruce - dismantle down to ground level. (Ashendon Conservation Area). Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 2 Oct 2026, 01:27

Application progress

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Received

around 26 Jan 2026

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Consultation

12 Feb 2026

✓

Approved

25 Feb 2026

Approved on 25 Feb 2026 · Last checked 2 Oct 2026

Documents

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Site constraints 4

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.

Also on the record

Conservation area about 28 m away: Ashendon; Radon affected area, class 2; 3 listed buildings within 150 m of the postcode pin.

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 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.

Sales history 2

Last sold for £575,000 in September 2009. Detached house, freehold.

25 September 2009£575,000

1 July 1996£263,000New build

Sale prices from HM Land Registry's price paid record, matched to this application by its address.

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Important details

Council: Buckinghamshire
Postcode: HP18 0HB
Received: around 26 Jan 2026
Validated: 26 Jan 2026
Target decision: 9 Mar 2026
Decision: TPO shall not be made
Decision date: 25 Feb 2026

How this decision compares

Decided in 30 days from validation, 12 days faster than Buckinghamshire's median of 42 for tree and landscaping works. Approved, as 91% of tree and landscaping works here are.

This one30d

Council42d

UK36d

81%decided within 8 weeks

91%approved

928decided in the last year

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

Public comments

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Last counted 2 Oct 2026

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Consultation & key dates

Consultation: 12 Feb 2026
Statutory expiry: 9 Mar 2026

Buckinghamshire

Planning Authority Score

1.3/10

Poor

#284 of 296 councils

Relevant to this application:

Householder decisions

Buckinghamshire is one of the slowest councils in England for householder decisions, ranking #280 out of 296. 55% of applications have the time limit extended, above the 41% national average. Householder applications are slightly less likely to be approved here (86%) than the national average (90%).

Among the slowest councils in England

for householder decisions

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

Buckinghamshire decision statistics

Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026

84%

Overall approval rate

Below avg (87%) #217 of 296

86%

Householder approved

Below avg (90%) #241 of 296

34%

Decided in 8 weeks

Below avg (63%) #280 of 296

55%

Extended time limit

Above avg (41%) #248 of 296

76%

Minor dwellings approved

491 decided (1-9 homes)

82%

Major dwellings approved

71 decided (10+ homes)

82%

Change of use approved

131 decided

4,446

Total decisions

690 refused in the year to March 2026