Cozens Holdings Owlswick Buckinghamshire HP27 9RH Data via plota.co.uk

PL/26/06216/KA - Works to trees in Conservation Area Approved

Proposal

T1 Hazel - Re-coppice all dead and declining stems, cutting them back to approximately 0.25 metres above ground level. T2 Hazel - Remove all failed, dead and structurally compromised stems from the Hazel coppice stool, making clean cuts as close to the point of origin as practicable. T3 Yew - Prune back low growth that is in contact with, or encroaching upon, the shed to provide a clearance of 1.5 metres. T4 Damson - Prune back growth encroaching towards the roof to provide a clearance of 1.5 metres. T5 Damson - Carry out halo pruning around the Damson tree to improve light availability and create a more favourable growing environment. This shall be achieved by reducing encroaching growth from the adjacent Apple (T7) tree to provide a clearance of 1.5 metres around the Damson. Additionally, trim back the lower growth of the adjacent Laurel hedge to achieve a clearance of 0.5 metres from the Damson. T7 Apple - Reduce encroaching growth from the Apple tree towards the adjacent Damson to provide a clearance of 1.5 metres. T9 Gray Poplar - Reduce the large, overextended lateral limb of the boundary Poplar that is oriented towards the neighbouring property by up to 2.5 metres. T11 Yew - Prune back growth encroaching towards the adjacent roof to provide a clearance of approximately 1.5 metres. Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received

3 Aug 2026

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Consultation

17 Aug 2026

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Approved

8 Sept 2026

Approved on 8 Sept 2026 · Delegated Decision · Last checked 8 Sept 2026

Documents 8

Decision & officer reports 1

PDF DECISION Decision Notice · 8 Sept 2026 View ↗

Application forms 1

PDF APPLICATIONFORMREDACTED Application Form and Certificate · 3 Aug 2026 View ↗

Site constraints 7

Grade II listed: Cozens Holding

List entry 1125839 · 1 m away · 1 more listed building within 150 m (1 Grade II)

Listed building consent is needed for work that affects the special interest of a listed building, inside or out, on top of planning permission. Setting can be a consideration for buildings nearby; there is no fixed radius.

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32 mRest AwhileGrade II

Historic England ↗

Owlswick 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.

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Article 4 direction

Former Wycombe Rural District - Poultry Production. 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.

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.

Habitat network: Network Enhancement Zone 1

Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.

Public footpath 27 m away

Matters where it crosses or adjoins the site: obstructing a path without a diversion order is an offence, and work cannot start until the order is confirmed.

Compiled from highway authority data, not the legal definitive map. A few authorities have not published, so no path shown is not proof there is none.

Also on the record

Tree preservation order 21 m away.

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 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

Council: Buckinghamshire
Application type: Works to trees in Conservation Area
Postcode: HP27 9RH
Received: 3 Aug 2026
Validated: 3 Aug 2026
Ward: Princes Risborough
Parish: Longwick Cum Ilmer
Case officer: Show
Target decision: 14 Sept 2026
Decision: TPO shall not be made
Decision date: 8 Sept 2026
Decision level: Delegated Decision
Applicant: Show
Agent: 4 Seasons Tree Care Ltd

How this decision compares

Decided in 36 days from validation, 6 days faster than Buckinghamshire's median of 42 for tree and landscaping works. Approved, as 91% of tree and landscaping works here are.

This one36d

Council42d

UK36d

81%decided within 8 weeks

91%approved

931decided 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

1comment received

1 neutral

Last counted 8 Sept 2026

Read the comments on the council site ↗

Consultation & key dates

Consultation: 17 Aug 2026
Comments by: 7 Sept 2026
Statutory expiry: 14 Sept 2026
Env. assessment: No

Buckinghamshire

Planning Authority Score

1.3/10

Poor

#284 of 296 councils

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Other 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

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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