Manor House Hotel, West Street, Castle Combe, Chippenham, SN14 7HR Data via plota.co.uk

PL/2026/04039 - Notification of proposed works to trees in a conservation area Approved
Trees & landscaping

Proposal

1 x False Acacia tree - reduce remaining leader by 50% to make safe; lower canopy lateral spread by 30% 1 x Yew tree - dismantle to 3ft in height to produce a low Yew shrub Data via plota.co.uk

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Received
24 Jun 2026
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Approved
25 Aug 2026

Approved on 25 Aug 2026 · Last checked 29 Aug 2026

Documents 3

Decision & officer reports 1

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Application forms 2

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Site constraints 11

10 listed buildings within 150 m of the postcode pin
Nearest: The Manor House Hotel, Grade II, about 10 m from the postcode pin · 10 Grade II
The site itself is not listed. 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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Historic England ↗
Cotswolds National Landscape
Great weight to conserving the landscape; major development restricted.
Previously an area of outstanding natural beauty, which is still the designation in law. Since 2023 authorities must seek to further its purpose, not merely have regard to it.
Castle Combe 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 ↗
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 ↗
Agricultural land, grade 4
Poor quality farmland, not best and most versatile. 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 Enhancement Zone 1
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 3; Scheduled monument about 219 m away: Medieval market cross immediately east of St Andrew's Church; National infrastructure project about 1907 m away: Lime Down Solar Project; SSSI about 464 m away: Rack Hill SSSI; Priority habitat about 42 m away: Deciduous woodland.
Not affected
Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt

Checked on 6 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 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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Important details

Council
Wiltshire
Application type
Notification of proposed works to trees in a conservation area
Postcode
SN14 7HR
Received
24 Jun 2026
Validated
24 Jun 2026
Ward
By Brook ED
Parish
Castle Combe CP
Case officer
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Target decision
25 Aug 2026
Decision
No Objection
Decision date
25 Aug 2026

How this decision compares

Decided in 62 days from validation, 24 days slower than Wiltshire's median of 38 for tree and landscaping works. Approved, as 99% of tree and landscaping works here are.

95%decided within 8 weeks
99%approved
1,246decided in the last year

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

Public comments

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Last counted 29 Aug 2026

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Consultation & key dates

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18 Jul 2026

Historical activity at this location

12 previous applications on record - archival context, not part of the live application.

This property

Previous applications at this address

2025 Approved
2 x Thuja trees - fell 1 x Thuja tree - reduce canopy height by 30%
PL/2025/09083
2024 Approved
Replacement of existing boiler and 3no. flues within roof terminal housing with 2No. new…
PL/2024/03178
2022 Approved
T1 and T2 - 2 x Sycamore trees - fell T3 and T4 - 2 x Willow trees - canopy reduction to…
PL/2022/03244
2021 Approved
Alterations to hotel bedroom and installation of two hot tubs
PL/2021/09757
2021 Approved
Alterations to hotel bedroom and installation of two hot tubs
PL/2021/09456
2021 Approved
Replacement of 4no. signs.
PL/2021/05277
2021 Withdrawn
Replacement of 4no. signs.
PL/2021/03384
Within ~100m

Nearby activity

2021 Withdrawn
Ludlow and Brune Cottages, Manor House Hotel, West Street, Castle Combe, Chippenham, SN14 7HR
Installation of hot tubs at two cottages within hotel
PL/2021/03393
2020 Withdrawn
Manor House Hotel West Street Castle Combe Chippenham Wiltshire SN14 7HR
30% Crown Reduction to Beech Tree (T1), Pollard Sycamore Tree to 5 Metres (T2), 30% Crown…
20/05116/TCA
2018 Approved
The Manor House Hotel Castle Combe SN14 7HR
Replacement sign
18/07976/ADV
2018 Withdrawn
Manor House Hotel West Street Castle Combe Chippenham Wiltshire SN14 7HR
Fell 2 Ash Trees and 1 Sycamore Tree
18/07729/TCA
2017 Withdrawn
Manor House Hotel West Street Castle Combe Chippenham Wiltshire SN14 7HR
Crown Lift 4 Yew Trees by 2 Metres
17/05263/TCA
Wiltshire
Planning Authority Score
3.9/10
Below average
#203 of 296 councils
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Other decisions

Wiltshire is slower than most councils at deciding householder applications, ranking #225 out of 296. The council extends the time limit on 55% of applications - one of the highest rates in England. Expect your application to take longer than the standard deadline. Householder applications are slightly more likely to be approved here (96%) than the national average (90%).

Frequently extends decision deadlines
expect longer than the statutory limit
These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance
Wiltshire decision statistics
Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026
93%
Overall approval rate
Above avg (87%) #71 of 296
96%
Householder approved
Above avg (90%) #65 of 296
53%
Decided in 8 weeks
Below avg (63%) #225 of 296
55%
Extended time limit
Above avg (41%) #252 of 296
78%
Minor dwellings approved
339 decided (1-9 homes)
90%
Major dwellings approved
48 decided (10+ homes)
92%
Change of use approved
160 decided
3,659
Total decisions
256 refused in the year to March 2026
Source: MHCLG planning statistics · See full council rankings