Butts Cottage Abbots Morton Road Abbots Morton Worcester WR7 4NA Data via plota.co.uk

W/26/01981/CAN - Tree works within a conservation area Approved

Proposal

Removal of 1 x conifer tree (exact species unknown) and 1 x black walnut tree. Undertake tree works, as detailed on application form and in any accompanying information. Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
20 Aug 2026
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Approved
7 Sept 2026

Approved on 7 Sept 2026 · Delegated · Last checked 13 Sept 2026

Site constraints 7

16 listed buildings within 150 m of the postcode pin
Nearest: High House Cottage, Grade II, about 22 m from the postcode pin · 16 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 ↗
Abbots Moreton 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 ↗
Public footpath about 12 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.
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) 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: 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
Scheduled monument about 205 m away: Moated site immediately adjacent to St Peter's Church; National infrastructure project about 400 m away: Arrow Valley Solar, at pre-application.
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 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.

Sales history 1

Last sold for £220,000 in October 2010. Detached house, freehold.

1 October 2010£220,000

Sale prices from HM Land Registry's price paid record, matched to this application by its address.

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Important details

Council
Wychavon
Application type
Tree works within a conservation area
Postcode
WR7 4NA
Received
20 Aug 2026
Validated
20 Aug 2026
Ward
Inkberrow Ward
Parish
Abbots Morton
Case officer
Show
Decision
No Objection
Decision date
7 Sept 2026
Decision level
Delegated
Applicant
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How this decision compares

Decided in 18 days from validation, 11 days faster than Wychavon's median of 29 for tree and landscaping works. Approved, as 96% of tree and landscaping works here are.

95%decided within 8 weeks
96%approved
346decided in the last year

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

Wychavon
Planning Authority Score
6.4/10
Average
#86 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
Other decisions

Wychavon is one of the fastest councils in England for householder decisions, ranking #19 out of 296. Householder applications are slightly more likely to be approved here (91%) than the national average (90%).

Among the fastest councils in England
for householder decisions
These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance
Wychavon decision statistics
Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026
86%
Overall approval rate
Below avg (87%) #202 of 296
91%
Householder approved
Above avg (90%) #186 of 296
88%
Decided in 8 weeks
Above avg (63%) #19 of 296
36%
Extended time limit
Below avg (41%) #117 of 296
65%
Minor dwellings approved
220 decided (1-9 homes)
98%
Major dwellings approved
42 decided (10+ homes)
91%
Change of use approved
54 decided
1,082
Total decisions
151 refused in the year to March 2026

Sale prices: Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.