Coleorton Hall Estate Coleorton Coalville Leicestershire LE67 8FA Data via plota.co.uk

26/01206/TPO - Works Affecting TPO Trees Validated

Proposal

Fell 17 dead trees comprising 11 Sycamore, 2 Beech, 2 Silver Birch, 1 Sweet Chestnut, 1 Scots Pine and 1 Ash. Fell 1 storm-damaged Silver Birch (Tree 22) that is beyond recovery and thin Sycamore group (Tree 12) as part of approved woodland thinning works. Remedial pruning works to Black Mulberry (Tree 14), Lebanese Cedar (Tree 15), Holly (Tree 17), Holm Oak (Tree 18), Lime (Tree 19) and Sycamore (Tree 35) to remove broken branches and make good damaged branch ends. Path clearance works to Sweet Chestnut (Tree 31) and Ash (Tree 34) to provide approximately 2m clearance over footpaths (Protected by Tree Preservation Order 159) Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
21 Sept 2026
✓
Consultation
25 Sept 2026
Decision
Expected by 16 Nov 2026

Under consideration

No decision has been issued yet. Plota predicts a decision between 10 Nov 2026 and 17 Nov 2026, from North West Leicestershire's recent tree and landscaping works.

Comments are open until 23 Oct 2026

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Site constraints 6

Registered park or garden: Coleorton Hall
Nationally designated heritage. Its significance and setting carry great weight.
Registered parks and gardens, battlefields, world heritage sites and protected wrecks are designated heritage assets: harm needs clear and convincing justification.
Historic England ↗
Coal mining development high risk area
Recorded coal mining features at or near the surface. Most planning applications here need a coal mining risk assessment.
From the Mining Remediation Authority, formerly the Coal Authority. The development high risk area marks recorded coal mining features at or near the surface: mine shafts and adits, shallow workings, mine gas and former opencast sites. Most planning applications there need a coal mining risk assessment; householder applications, changes of use and some minor works are exempt. Mine entry positions come from old plans and can be out by several metres, and unrecorded workings can exist anywhere in the coalfield.
Coal mining risk assessments ↗
Coleorton Hall 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 ↗
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
Radon affected area, class 2.
Not affected
Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 6 October 2026. Historic England, the Environment Agency, Natural England, the Mining Remediation Authority, 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.

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Important details

Application type
Works Affecting TPO Trees
Postcode
LE67 8FA
Received
21 Sept 2026
Validated
21 Sept 2026
Ward
Worthington & Breedon
Parish
Coleorton
Case officer
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Target decision
16 Nov 2026
Applicant
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Decision outlook

Day 18 of the 56-day target. North West Leicestershire usually decides tree and landscaping works by day 52.

Day 1838 days to the 56-day target
58%decided within 8 weeks
91%approved
92decided in the last year

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

Public comments

No public comments yet.

50 neighbours consulted · Last counted 3 Oct 2026

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Consultation & key dates

Alt. reference
PP-15236749
Planning Portal ref
PP-15236749
Neighbours
25 Sept 2026
Consultation
25 Sept 2026
Comments by
23 Oct 2026
Statutory expiry
16 Nov 2026
Env. assessment
No
North West Leicestershire
Planning Authority Score
4.6/10
Below average
#170 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
Householder decisions

North West Leicestershire is slower than most councils at deciding householder applications, ranking #211 out of 296. 51% of applications have the time limit extended, above the 41% national average. Householder applications are more likely to be approved here than most councils, with a 97% approval rate vs 90% nationally.

More permissive than most councils
97% approved vs 90% nationally
These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance
North West Leicestershire decision statistics
Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026
95%
Overall approval rate
Above avg (87%) #23 of 296
97%
Householder approved
Above avg (90%) #38 of 296
55%
Decided in 8 weeks
Below avg (63%) #211 of 296
51%
Extended time limit
Above avg (41%) #231 of 296
84%
Minor dwellings approved
82 decided (1-9 homes)
100%
Major dwellings approved
16 decided (10+ homes)
97%
Change of use approved
38 decided
555
Total decisions
25 refused in the year to March 2026