Millenium Green Site, Sutton Wick Lane, Drayton, Abingdon Data via plota.co.uk

P26/V3553/TCA - Works to trees in CA Approved

Proposal

5 Walnut Trees - carry out minor secondary and tertiary thinning of lower limbs along with early removal of walnuts to allow limbs to lift back up achieving a uniform height of 2m from ground level wherever needed for clearance to facilitate site maintenance works - all pruning cuts to suitable branch junctions on the outside of the branch collar as per BS:3998(2010). Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received

13 Aug 2026

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Approved

24 Aug 2026

Approved on 24 Aug 2026 · Last checked 24 Sept 2026

Documents 1

Application forms 1

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Site constraints 4

Drayton Conservation Area 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.

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), which most planning maps still show, had this area as grade 3. 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.

Also on the record

2 listed buildings within 150 m of the postcode pin; National infrastructure project about 262 m away: White Horse Reservoir (previously known as South East Strategic Reservoir Option), at pre-application.

Not affected

Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · 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 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.

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Important details

Council: Vale of White Horse
Application type: Works to trees in CA
Received: 13 Aug 2026
Validated: 13 Aug 2026
Case officer: Show
Target decision: 24 Sept 2026
Decision: No obj CA works
Decision date: 24 Aug 2026
Applicant: Show
Agent: Show

How this decision compares

Decided in 11 days from validation, 8 days faster than Vale of White Horse's median of 19 for tree and landscaping works. Approved, as 100% of tree and landscaping works here are.

This one11d

Council19d

UK36d

99%decided within 8 weeks

100%approved

243decided in the last year

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

Public comments

No public comments yet.

Last counted 24 Sept 2026

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Consultation & key dates

Statutory expiry: 24 Sept 2026

Vale of White Horse

Planning Authority Score

4.5/10

Below average

#176 of 296 councils

Relevant to this application:

Householder decisions

Vale of White Horse ranks #198 out of 296 councils for householder decision speed. 51% of applications have the time limit extended, above the 41% national average. Householder applications are slightly more likely to be approved here (96%) than the national average (90%).

These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance

Vale of White Horse decision statistics

Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026

95%

Overall approval rate

Above avg (87%) #32 of 296

96%

Householder approved

Above avg (90%) #64 of 296

57%

Decided in 8 weeks

Below avg (63%) #198 of 296

51%

Extended time limit

Above avg (41%) #232 of 296

86%

Minor dwellings approved

83 decided (1-9 homes)

88%

Major dwellings approved

16 decided (10+ homes)

90%

Change of use approved

31 decided

1,015

Total decisions

51 refused in the year to March 2026