42 Chalfont Road Oxford Oxfordshire OX2 6TH Data via plota.co.uk

25/02565/CAT - Works to Trees in Conservation Area Approved

Proposal

Works to 2no. Laurel trees and 1no. Sorbus tree as specified by Arbor Vitae Oxford in the North Oxford Victorian Suburb Conservation area. T2 Stilted Laurel, crown reduce by 0.5 meters apical and lateral growth. T3 Stilted Laurel, crown reduce by 0.5 meters apical and lateral growth. T4 Sorbus, crown reduce 0.5 meters apical and lateral growth, to formative prune to contain. Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 11 Oct 2026, 06:37

Application progress

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Received

1 Oct 2025

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Consultation

20 Oct 2025

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Approved

27 Oct 2025

Approved on 27 Oct 2025 · Delegated Decision · Last checked 10 Oct 2026

Documents 2

Decision & officer reports 1

PDF Decision Decision · 27 Oct 2025 View ↗

Application forms 1

PDF Application form redacted Application Form · 1 Oct 2025 View ↗

All documents on the council site ↗

Site constraints 8

North Oxford Victorian Suburb 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.

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Article 4 direction

Houses in Multiple Occupation Article 4 Direction. Named permitted development rights are withdrawn here.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.

Air quality management area: The City of Oxford

The council has declared the area as failing an air quality objective.

Schemes that add traffic, parking or combustion plant are assessed against the area's action plan and may need an air quality assessment.

Council record ↗

Habitat network: Network Enhancement Zone 2

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

Also on the record

Special area of conservation about 474 m away: Oxford Meadows; National infrastructure project about 400 m away: East West Rail - Bedford to Cambridge and Western improvements, at pre-application; SSSI about 474 m away: Port Meadow with Wolvercote Common & Green SSSI; Inside the Oxford built-up area.

Not affected

Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 2 November 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.