Monks Walk Ferry Lane Medmenham Buckinghamshire SL7 2EZ Data via plota.co.uk

PL/26/05850/TP - Works to trees covered by TPO Registered
Trees & landscaping

Proposal

T1 - Lime - Crown Reduction - Reducing the height and spread of the tree by up to 3m as overgrown. Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
21 Jul 2026
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Consultation
30 Jul 2026
Decision
Expected by 15 Sept 2026

This application is under consideration - no decision has been issued yet. Plota predicts a decision around 15 Sept 2026, from Buckinghamshire's recent tree and landscaping works. The consultation period closed on 20 Aug 2026.

Documents 2

Application forms 1

PDF APPLICATIONFORMREDACTED Application Form and Certificate · 21 Jul 2026 View ↗

Other documents 1

IMG T1 Additional Information · 21 Jul 2026 View ↗

All documents on the council site ↗

Site constraints 10

Flood zone 2, rivers and sea
Medium chance: between a 1 in 100 and 1 in 1,000 annual chance from rivers, or 1 in 200 to 1 in 1,000 from the sea. Any development here needs a flood risk assessment. Defences are not counted.
The Environment Agency flood map for planning. Homes in zone 3 must also pass the sequential test. Surface water flooding is a separate map.
Flood map ↗
Chilterns 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.
Medmenham 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 ↗
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 Named permitted development rights are withdrawn here.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.
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.
Habitat network: Network Expansion Zone
Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.
6 listed buildings within 150 m
Nearest: Gate Piers and Gates 25 Metres North East of Medmenham Abbey, Grade II, 31 m away · 1 Grade II*, 5 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 ↗
SSSI 189 m away: Rodbed Wood 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.
Also on the record
Green belt 96 m away: London.
Not affected
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
Buckinghamshire
Application type
Works to trees covered by TPO
Postcode
SL7 2EZ
Received
21 Jul 2026
Validated
21 Jul 2026
Ward
Chiltern Villages
Parish
Medmenham
Case officer
Show
Target decision
15 Sept 2026
Decision level
Delegated Decision
Applicant
Show
Agent
South Bucks Tree Surgeons Limited

Decision outlook

Day 55 of the 56-day target. Buckinghamshire usually decides tree and landscaping works by day 56.

Day 551 days to the 56-day target
65%decided within 8 weeks
85%approved
421decided 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 12 Sept 2026

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Consultation & key dates

Consultation
30 Jul 2026
Comments by
20 Aug 2026
Statutory expiry
15 Sept 2026
Env. assessment
No
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
These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance
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
Source: MHCLG planning statistics · See full council rankings