Lower Wiggenstall Farm, New Road, Longnor, SK17 0LJ Data via plota.co.uk

NP26/0656 - Conservation Area Tree Work Decided

Proposal

Surveyed by Joe Bawden (PDNPA Tree Officer) on 4 Jun 2026 Species: Birch, Downy Age class: Mature Height: 15m DBH: 50cm Birch Tree next to Lower Wiggenstall Farm homestead and carparking area (used to store machinery). Please see map attached. Advice is to fell tree as it will land on expensive farm machinery when it fails. Issue: Large cavity on S side arising from large pruning cut. Probe and mallet confirm decay is localised at present. Similar 2025 and 2026. Active early cracks following reactive helical growth at 1m on opposite side to the cavity 2026. Works Fell the tree ASAP (within 13 weeks of approval). Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 14 Sept 2026, 05:39

Application progress

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Received

1 Jul 2026

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Decided

Decided on · Last checked 9 Sept 2026

Documents 4

Site constraints 4

Peak District National Park

The park authority decides applications here. Great weight to conserving the landscape; major development restricted.

Landscape, scenic beauty and wildlife carry great weight, and major development is only allowed in exceptional circumstances.

Wigginstall conservation area

Also Wigginstall. 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.

Agricultural land, grade 3b

Not best and most versatile land (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Predicted from the national soil map. The older provisional map, which most planning maps still show, had this area as grade 5. 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.

Not affected

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

Checked on 11 September 2026. 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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