Holy Vale Wines, Holy Vale, St Mary's, TR21 0NT. Data via plota.co.uk

Pending P/26/086/TWA - Tree Works Application

Trees & landscaping

Council

Scilly Isles

Date received

around 15 Sept 2026

Date validated

15 Sept 2026

Postcode

TR21 0NT

Type

Tree Works Application

Description

Application to pollard one elm tree located to the east of the Holy Vale winery building to 15ft. Commenting on an application If you wish to comment on an application, you can do so in writing to the Planning Officer by email or by letter to the address below. Please note that postal communication may currently experience slight delays. Hard copies of the plans are currently unavailable to vie Data via plota.co.uk

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Last checked 3 Oct 2026, 08:18

Decision outlook

Plota predicts a decision between 16 Oct 2026 and 24 Oct 2026, from recent tree works across the UK.

Day 19 of the 56-day target. Councils usually decide tree works by day 36.

prediction

Day 1937 days to the 56-day target

89%decided within 8 weeks

96%approved

57,663decided in the last year

Plota live figures for tree works decided across the UK in the last twelve months, from validation; too few recent tree works in Scilly Isles to go on. Scilly Isles decision record →

Site constraints 8

Isles Of Scilly 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.

Isles of Scilly conservation area

Also Isles of Scilly 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.

4 Article 4 directions

Isles of Scilly Article 4 Direction 1975 · Isles of Scilly Article 4 Direction 1988 · Isles of Scilly Article 4 Direction 1995 · Isles of Scilly Article 4 Direction 1998. Named permitted development rights are withdrawn here.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.

Heritage coast: Isles of Scilly

A defined stretch of undeveloped coastline.

Development inconsistent with keeping the coast undeveloped is resisted.

Agricultural land, grade 5

Very poor quality farmland, not best and most versatile. 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 2. 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.

SSSI about 152 m away: Higher Moors & Porth Hellick Pool (St. Mary's) SSSI

Natural England may need consulting, depending on what is proposed.

Sites of special scientific interest are the best wildlife and geological sites in the country. Development likely to harm one is rarely permitted.

Also on the record

Priority habitat about 27 m away: No main habitat but additional habitats present.

Not affected

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

Checked on 16 September 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.

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