Land North and Land South of Fox Talbot Museum, High Street, Lacock Data via plota.co.uk

PL/2026/06391 - Notification of proposed works to trees in a conservation area Submitted

Proposal

Walnut tree - Fell. Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 27 Oct 2026, 01:47

Application progress

✓

Received

around 6 Oct 2026

Decision

Expected by 1 Dec 2026

Under consideration

No decision has been issued yet. Plota predicts a decision around 13 Nov 2026, from Wiltshire's recent tree and landscaping works.

Comments are open until 3 Nov 2026

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Documents 7

Site constraints 8

Grade II listed: Outbuilding to North of Stable Court at Lacock Abbey

List entry 1022178 · 25 m away · 2 more listed buildings within 150 m (1 Grade I, 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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104 mLacock Abbey With Stable YardGrade I
120 mThe Columns, North of Drive to Lacock AbbeyGrade II

Historic England ↗

Registered park or garden: Lacock Abbey

Nationally designated heritage. Its significance and setting carry great weight.

Registered parks and gardens, battlefields, world heritage sites and protected wrecks are designated heritage assets: harm needs clear and convincing justification.

Historic England ↗

Lacock 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 ↗

Agricultural land, grade 2

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) agrees.

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: Wood pasture and parkland

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

National infrastructure project 857 m away: Lime Down Solar Project

The site is 857 m from the project boundary. Generating station, under examination.

Nationally significant infrastructure projects (power stations, electricity lines, pipelines, major roads and railways, harbours, airports and reservoirs) are consented by a Secretary of State under the Planning Act 2008, after an examination by the Planning Inspectorate, rather than by the council. The boundary is the one the Inspectorate consults on and can change as the scheme does. Projects are shown within 2 km of the site.

Planning Inspectorate project page ↗

Also on the record

Radon affected area, class 2; Priority habitat 2 m away: Deciduous woodland.

Not affected

Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 13 October 2026. 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
Received: around 6 Oct 2026
Validated: 6 Oct 2026
Ward: Corsham Without ED
Parish: Lacock CP
Case officer: Show

Decision outlook

Day 22 of the 56-day target. Wiltshire usually decides tree and landscaping works by day 38.

prediction

Day 2234 days to the 56-day target

95%decided within 8 weeks

99%approved

1,891decided 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

No public comments yet.

Last counted 20 Oct 2026

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Consultation & key dates

Comments by: 3 Nov 2026

Wiltshire

Planning Authority Score

3.9/10

Below average

#203 of 296 councils

Relevant to this application:

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

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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

Land North and Land South of Fox Talbot Museum, High Street, Lacock Data via plota.co.uk

Proposal

Application progress

Documents 7

Statements & assessments 2

Plans & drawings 1

Application forms 1

Other documents 3

Site constraints 8

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Important details

Decision outlook

Public comments

Consultation & key dates