Orchard House Northern Heights Bourne End Buckinghamshire SL8 5LE Data via plota.co.uk

PL/25/5930/TP Approved

Proposal

Crown lift lower branch nearest house by up to 3m/4m to provide safe clearance from the house, and remove x 1 branch going towards neighbours to balance tree up x 1 Blue Cedar (T1) Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received

around 15 Jan 2026

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Consultation

19 Jan 2026

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Approved

17 Mar 2026

Approved on 17 Mar 2026 · Last checked 1 Oct 2026

Documents

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Site constraints 6

Article 4 direction

Former Wycombe Rural District - Poultry Production. Named permitted development rights are withdrawn here.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.

Tree preservation order

Consent is needed before work on protected trees.

Not every council has published its orders as open data, so no order shown is not proof there is none.

Also on the record

Radon affected area, class 2; Inside the Bourne End built-up area; Green belt about 99 m away: London; 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. 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 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.

Sales history 2

Last sold for £1,750,000 in August 2021. Detached house, freehold.

4 August 2021£1,750,000

15 February 2016£1,075,000

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

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Important details

Council: Buckinghamshire
Postcode: SL8 5LE
Received: around 15 Jan 2026
Validated: 15 Jan 2026
Target decision: 12 Mar 2026
Decision: Approved
Decision date: 17 Mar 2026

How this decision compares

Decided in 61 days from validation, 19 days slower than Buckinghamshire's median of 42 for tree and landscaping works. Approved, as 91% of tree and landscaping works here are.

This one61d

Council42d

UK36d

81%decided within 8 weeks

91%approved

931decided in the last year

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

Public comments

No public comments yet.

Last counted 1 Oct 2026

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Consultation & key dates

Consultation: 19 Jan 2026
Comments by: 9 Feb 2026
Statutory expiry: 12 Mar 2026

Buckinghamshire

Planning Authority Score

1.3/10

Poor

#284 of 296 councils

Relevant to this application:

Householder decisions

Buckinghamshire is one of the slowest councils in England for householder decisions, ranking #280 out of 296. 55% of applications have the time limit extended, above the 41% national average. Householder applications are slightly less likely to be approved here (86%) than the national average (90%).

Among the slowest councils in England

for householder decisions

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Buckinghamshire decision statistics

Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026

84%

Overall approval rate

Below avg (87%) #217 of 296

86%

Householder approved

Below avg (90%) #241 of 296

34%

Decided in 8 weeks

Below avg (63%) #280 of 296

55%

Extended time limit

Above avg (41%) #248 of 296

76%

Minor dwellings approved

491 decided (1-9 homes)

82%

Major dwellings approved

71 decided (10+ homes)

82%

Change of use approved

131 decided

4,446

Total decisions

690 refused in the year to March 2026