The Bache, Lightmoor Village, Telford, Shropshire Data via plota.co.uk

TWC/2026/0619 - Tree Preservation Order Approved

Proposal

Monolith at main unions to 1no. Ash tree Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 27 Oct 2026, 02:46

Application progress

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Received

20 Aug 2026

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Approved

8 Oct 2026

Approved on 8 Oct 2026 · Delegated · Last checked 14 Oct 2026

Documents

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Site constraints 4

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 Expansion Zone

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

Radon affected area, class 6

An estimated 30% or more of homes reach the radon action level. Indicative for the 1 km square, which takes the highest class found in it; a radon test gives the answer for a building.

From the British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency indicative atlas. Under building regulations, as the BRE guide BR 211 (2023) sets out, new buildings and extensions need basic radon protection from class 3 in England and Wales and from class 2 in Scotland, and full protection from class 5. The class at the site itself, from the detailed BGS map, decides which.

UKHSA radon ↗

Also on the record

Coalfield, development low risk area.

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 Mining Remediation Authority, 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: Telford
Application type: Tree Preservation Order
Received: 20 Aug 2026
Validated: 20 Aug 2026
Ward: Horsehay and Lightmoor
Parish: Dawley Hamlets
Case officer: Show
Decision: Tree Preservation Order Granted
Decision date: 8 Oct 2026
Decision level: Delegated
Applicant: Show
Agent: Bournville Village Trust

How this decision compares

Decided in 49 days from validation, 15 days slower than Telford's median of 34 for tree and landscaping works. Approved, as 94% of tree and landscaping works here are.

This one49d

Council34d

UK36d

100%decided within 8 weeks

94%approved

106decided in the last year

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

Consultation & key dates

Planning Portal ref: 15173588

Telford

Planning Authority Score

7.8/10

Good

#31 of 296 councils

Relevant to this application:

Householder decisions

Telford is one of the fastest councils in England for householder decisions, ranking #6 out of 296. Only 12% of applications have the time limit extended, well below the 41% national average - the council usually decides on time. 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

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Telford decision statistics

Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026

91%

Overall approval rate

Above avg (87%) #102 of 296

91%

Householder approved

Above avg (90%) #183 of 296

96%

Decided in 8 weeks

Above avg (63%) #6 of 296

12%

Extended time limit

Below avg (41%) #6 of 296

77%

Minor dwellings approved

57 decided (1-9 homes)

86%

Major dwellings approved

14 decided (10+ homes)

86%

Change of use approved

43 decided

571

Total decisions

54 refused in the year to March 2026