Little Mere, RINGWOOD ROAD, NORTH GORLEY, FORDINGBRIDGE, SP6 2PB Data via plota.co.uk

26/00783CONS - Trees - Conservation Area Approved
Trees & landscaping

Proposal

Prune 1 x Ash tree (T1 Ash on the plan) Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
20 Jul 2026
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Validated
21 Jul 2026
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Approved
20 Aug 2026

Approved on 20 Aug 2026 · Delegated · Last checked 20 Aug 2026

Documents

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Site constraints 10

Aerodrome safeguarding zone
Nutrient neutrality catchment: River Avon SAC
New homes and overnight accommodation must show nutrient neutrality before approval.
Natural England advice: extra wastewater in these catchments harms protected habitats, so schemes must offset their nutrient load, usually through credits.
New Forest National Park
The park authority decides applications here. Great weight to conserving the landscape; major development restricted.
Landscape, scenic beauty and wildlife carry great weight, and major development is only allowed in exceptional circumstances.
Western Escarpment 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 ↗
2 Article 4 directions
Article 4 Direction Np New Forest Campsite · Article 4 Direction Np New Forest Recreational Campsite. Named permitted development rights are withdrawn here.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.
Special area of conservation 25 m away: The New Forest
Work nearby can need a habitats assessment.
Harm to a protected site is only accepted where there is no alternative and an overriding public interest.
Agricultural land, grade 2
Best and most versatile land (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Predicted from the national soil map. The older provisional map, 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.
SSSI 25 m away: The New Forest SSSI
Natural England may need consulting, depending on what is proposed.
Sites of special scientific interest are the best wildlife and geological sites in the country. Development likely to harm one is rarely permitted.
Habitat network: Network Enhancement Zone 2
Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.
Aerodrome safeguarding zoneCouncil record
Recorded by the council for this site.
Council site ↗
Also on the record
2 listed buildings within 150 m.
Not affected
Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 11 September 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
New Forest (Park)
Application type
Trees - Conservation Area
Postcode
SP6 2PB
Received
20 Jul 2026
Validated
21 Jul 2026
Parish
Hyde Parish Council
Case officer
Show
Target decision
30 Aug 2026
Decision
Raise No Objection
Decision date
20 Aug 2026
Decision level
Delegated
Applicant
Show
Agent
TreeMenders

How this decision compares

Decided in 30 days from validation, about the council's usual 28 days. Approved, as 99% of tree and landscaping works here are.

100%decided within 8 weeks
99%approved
348decided in the last year

Plota live figures for tree and landscaping works decided by New Forest (Park) in the last twelve months, from validation. New Forest (Park) decision record →

Consultation & key dates

Alt. reference
PP-15096512
Comments by
16 Aug 2026
Site or press notice
20 Jul 2026
Statutory expiry
16 Aug 2026

Historical activity at this location

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

This property

Previous applications at this address

2025 Approved
Application for discharge of conditions 6, 7, 8 & 9 of planning permission 24/00719FULL f…
25/00607DOC
2024 Approved
2no. ground floor single storey extensions; demolition of 1no. existing single storey ext…
24/00719FULL
2020 Approved
Fell 1 x Ash tree DD - Dying/decline - signs of Ash Dieback Disease
CONS/20/0545
2019 Approved
Re-roofing of single storey side extension
19/00926
2018 Approved
Replacement outbuilding
18/00576
New Forest (Park)
Planning Authority Score
3.3/10
Poor
#226 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
Other decisions

New Forest (Park) is slower than most councils at deciding householder applications, ranking #254 out of 296. Householder applications are slightly more likely to be approved here (92%) than the national average (90%).

Slower than most councils
for householder decisions
These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance
New Forest (Park) decision statistics
Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026
89%
Overall approval rate
Above avg (87%) #136 of 296
92%
Householder approved
Above avg (90%) #160 of 296
45%
Decided in 8 weeks
Below avg (63%) #254 of 296
44%
Extended time limit
Above avg (41%) #180 of 296
75%
Minor dwellings approved
28 decided (1-9 homes)
50%
Major dwellings approved
4 decided (10+ homes)
83%
Change of use approved
18 decided
487
Total decisions
55 refused in the year to March 2026
Source: MHCLG planning statistics · See full council rankings