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26/02135/5DAY - Tree 5 Day Notices Awaiting decision
Listed buildingsTrees & landscaping

Proposal

Mature Yew tree pushing listed wall of Registered Park and Garden - remove or fell and to a low monolith; poison stump. ///drop.lowest.severe. Black Pine (near the underground structure) with Dyers Polypore fungus Phaeolus schweinitzii fruiting along two roots - Reduce to a monolith. ///prevented.confetti.reflector (approx.) Sweet Chestnut along the internal road with single damaged stem showing exposed heartwood - to re-coppice initially at 2m, then to re-coppice to a suitable low point once new growth has established. ///bulky.perform.campfires. Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
28 Sept 2026
Decision
Expected by 5 Oct 2026

This application is under consideration - no decision has been issued yet. Plota predicts a decision around 23 Nov 2026, from West Berkshire's recent listed building works.

Documents

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Site constraints 6

Agricultural land, grade 4
Poor quality farmland, not best and most versatile. 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.
Registered park or garden 4 m away: Aldermaston Court
Its setting is a consideration for work nearby.
Registered parks and gardens, battlefields, world heritage sites and protected wrecks are designated heritage assets: harm needs clear and convincing justification.
Historic England ↗
Habitat network: Wood pasture and parkland
Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.
4 listed buildings within 150 m
Nearest: Church Lodge, Grade II, 45 m away · 4 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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Also on the record
Heritage at risk 4 m away: Aldermaston Court; Tree preservation order 6 m away: 201/21/0990 - A1 - Tree.
Not affected
Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 2 October 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
West Berkshire
Application type
Tree 5 Day Notices
Received
28 Sept 2026
Validated
28 Sept 2026
Ward
Aldermaston
Parish
Aldermaston Parish Council
Case officer
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Target decision
5 Oct 2026
Applicant
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Decision outlook

Day 6 of the 56-day target. West Berkshire usually decides listed building works by day 56.

Day 650 days to the 56-day target
61%decided within 8 weeks
97%approved
66decided in the last year

Plota live figures for listed building works decided by West Berkshire in the last twelve months, from validation. West Berkshire decision record →

Public comments

No public comments yet.

Last counted 3 Oct 2026

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Consultation & key dates

Statutory expiry
5 Oct 2026
Env. assessment
No
West Berkshire
Planning Authority Score
3.9/10
Below average
#202 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
Householder decisions

West Berkshire is slower than most councils at deciding householder applications, ranking #199 out of 296. Householder applications are slightly more likely to be approved here (93%) than the national average (90%).

Slower than most councils
for householder decisions
These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance
West Berkshire decision statistics
Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026
90%
Overall approval rate
Above avg (87%) #122 of 296
93%
Householder approved
Above avg (90%) #142 of 296
57%
Decided in 8 weeks
Below avg (63%) #199 of 296
46%
Extended time limit
Above avg (41%) #203 of 296
55%
Minor dwellings approved
65 decided (1-9 homes)
96%
Major dwellings approved
25 decided (10+ homes)
77%
Change of use approved
57 decided
1,045
Total decisions
108 refused in the year to March 2026
Source: MHCLG planning statistics · See full council rankings