Alfreton Park and Recreation Ground, Alfreton Park, Alfreton, DE55 7AL Data via plota.co.uk

2026/4603/TPO - Tree Preservation Order Application Approved

Proposal

Various works to 33 trees described in AA Tree Surgeons Ltd Tree Survey dated 21 May 2026. Comprising:, T8711 - 1x Ash - Prune from BT cable by 1.5m and raise low canopy above road to 5.2m. T8677 - 1x Horse Chestnut - Prune from building/structure/tree by 1.5m. T8676 - 1x Ash – Remove major deadwood over highway. T8675 – 1x Ash - Remove major deadwood over highway. T6276 – 1x Oak – Remove low large diameter deadwood over footpath. T6093 – 1x Oak - Remove major deadwood over highway. T6057 – 1x Oak – Remove epicormic growth encroaching over road and remove large diameter deadwood over road. T6044 – 1x Oak – Remove encroaching epicormic growth. T6034 – 1x Oak - Remove major deadwood over highway. T6026 – 1x Oak – Remove snapped limbs over public footpath. T6022- 1x Oak - Recommendation remove deadwood roadside and over footpath only. T5633 – 1x Norway Maple - Coppice to 0.5m stumps. T5629 – 1x Norway Maple – Reduce crown by 2-3m. T5513 – 1x Ash - Remove deadwood over targets. , T5501 – 1x Ash – Remove deadwood over road. T5402 – 1x Ash - Remove dead wood over road. T5391 – 1x Horse Chestnut - Raise crown to 5.2m. T5378 – 1x Oak - Remove deadwood over road and raise crown to 5.2m. W0002 – Willow group – Coppice to 1m stumps. T8710 – 1x Common Beech – Pollard at 8m. T6261 – 1x Norway Maple – Pollard to 5m. T5498 – 1x Oak – Crown reduction by up to 3m. , T5487 – 1x Oak – Pollard at 5m. T5471 – 1x Horse Chestnut – Reduce by 3m. , T5465 – 1 Oak - Prune back from utilities by 1.5m. T5463 – 1x Horse Chestnut – Reduce top a further 3m. T5450 – 1x Horse Chestnut. Reduce to monolith of apprx 6m. T5494- 1x Horse Chestnut. Crown reduce by 3m all around. T5490 – 1x Oak - Reduce both dead top to living branch and substancialy reduce remaining lateral branch almost to a pollard. T5431 – 1x Ash - Pollard at 6m. W0006 – Sycamore group – Fell to safe height. W0003 – Sycamore group – Fell to safe height. , Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
1 Jul 2026
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Validated
3 Jul 2026
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Approved
8 Jul 2026

Approved on 8 Jul 2026 · Last checked 26 Oct 2026

Site constraints 5

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 ↗
Agricultural land, grade 3b
Not 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 4. 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.
Radon affected area, class 5
An estimated 10 to 30% of homes reach the radon action level. Indicative for the 1 km square, which takes the highest class found in it; a radon test gives the answer for a building.
From the British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency indicative atlas. Under building regulations, as the BRE guide BR 211 (2023) sets out, new buildings and extensions need basic radon protection from class 3 in England and Wales and from class 2 in Scotland, and full protection from class 5. The class at the site itself, from the detailed BGS map, decides which.
UKHSA radon ↗
Also on the record
National infrastructure project about 571 m away: Chesterfield to Willington, at pre-application; Priority habitat about 17 m away: Deciduous woodland.
Not affected
Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 18 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 Mining Remediation Authority, the Planning Inspectorate, 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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Application type
Tree Preservation Order Application
Postcode
DE55 7AL
Received
1 Jul 2026
Validated
3 Jul 2026
Parish
Alfreton
Case officer
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Decision
TPO: Consent Granted
Decision date
8 Jul 2026
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