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MO/2025/02352 - Conservation Area Trees Approved
Trees & landscaping

Proposal

Reduce 1 No. Willow tree to the knuckles approximately 6 metres from ground level, reducing the height by 5 metres. This will consequently temporarily reduce the width to the knuckles approximately 2.5 metres, until the new shoots grow. Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
29 Jul 2025
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Validated
22 Sept 2025
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Approved
14 Nov 2025

Approved on 14 Nov 2025 · Planning Committee · Last checked 5 Oct 2026

Planning committee

Decided by Mole Valley Development Management Committee on 5 Nov 2025.

Approved by 12 votes to 0

No officer report was published for this decision; this summary is from the committee minutes.

  • The application was to reduce a willow tree to its knuckles, cutting its height by 5 metres and temporarily narrowing its width.
  • A member asked whether the tree was protected by a Tree Preservation Order, and officers explained it was not, but the application came to committee because the tree was in a conservation area.
  • The committee approved the application unanimously, 12 in favour, subject to the conditions in the officer's report.
Read how the committee decided What was proposed, a question on protection, and the committee's decision.

Source: Plota analysis of Mole Valley's committee minutes of 5 Nov 2025.

Documents 1

Application forms 1

PDF ApplicationFormRedacted.pdf Planning Application Form (Web) · 3 Oct 2025 View ↗

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Site constraints 8

Green belt: London
Inappropriate development needs very special circumstances.
Green belt policy allows a short list of exceptions, such as limited extensions and replacement buildings. Anything else needs very special circumstances that clearly outweigh the harm. Some green belt land can count as grey belt, where it does not strongly serve the green belt's purposes. The council decides this in its green belt assessment or on each application, so we do not mark it here.
Read the government guidance ↗
Conservation_Area.TAB 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.
In flood zones plus climate change
Inside the extent flood zones 2 and 3 could reach with climate change: the Central allowance for the 2080s on rivers, the Upper End allowance for sea level rise to 2125. From rivers. Defences are not counted.
The Environment Agency flood map for planning. Councils use it to decide when a flood risk assessment and the sequential test are needed. It is indicative and does not show whether a particular property will flood.
Flood map ↗
Habitat network: Restorable Habitat
Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.
Also on the record
1 listed building within 150 m; Flood defence 30 m away (natural high ground, designed for a 1 in 5 year flood); Inside the Brockham built-up area; Natural England's Provisional ALC map (1:250,000, 1970s) had this area as grade 3, but it predates the buildings here and the current map does not class it as farmland.
Not affected
Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · 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
Mole Valley
Application type
Conservation Area Trees
Postcode
RH3 7JP
Received
29 Jul 2025
Validated
22 Sept 2025
Ward
Brockham, Betchworth, Buckland, Box Hill & Headley
Parish
Mole Valley District Council Parishes
Case officer
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Target decision
18 Nov 2025
Decision
NO OBJECTION
Decision date
14 Nov 2025
Decision level
Planning Committee
Applicant
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How this decision compares

Decided in 53 days from validation, about the council's usual 50 days. Approved, as 92% of tree and landscaping works here are.

61%decided within 8 weeks
92%approved
343decided in the last year

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Consultation & key dates

Alt. reference
PP/2025/01013
Committee
5 Nov 2025
Statutory expiry
18 Nov 2025
Env. assessment
No

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Mole Valley
Planning Authority Score
2.1/10
Poor
#270 of 296 councils
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One of the strictest councils
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Mole Valley decision statistics
Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026
72%
Overall approval rate
Below avg (87%) #291 of 296
76%
Householder approved
Below avg (90%) #291 of 296
50%
Decided in 8 weeks
Below avg (63%) #240 of 296
43%
Extended time limit
Above avg (41%) #172 of 296
47%
Minor dwellings approved
114 decided (1-9 homes)
71%
Major dwellings approved
7 decided (10+ homes)
93%
Change of use approved
15 decided
913
Total decisions
259 refused in the year to March 2026
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