The Orchard Bates Lane Souldern OX27 7JU Data via plota.co.uk

26/02425/TCA - Works To Trees In Conservation Area Under Consultation
Trees & landscaping

Proposal

T1 Larch - Fell. Data via plota.co.uk

Track application Save this application and get an email when its status or decision changes. Alerts nearby Get email alerts for new planning applications near this address.
View original council record ↗Last checked

Application progress

✓
Received
21 Sept 2026
Decision
Expected by 2 Nov 2026

Under consideration

No decision has been issued yet. Plota predicts a decision around 29 Oct 2026, from Cherwell's recent tree and landscaping works.

Documents 6

Other documents 6

PDF Case Correspondence Document · 29 Sept 2026 View ↗ PDF Case Correspondence Document · 29 Sept 2026 View ↗ PDF Application Documents Document · 21 Sept 2026 View ↗ PDF Application Documents Document · 21 Sept 2026 View ↗ PDF Supporting Documents Document · 21 Sept 2026 View ↗ PDF Supporting Documents Document · 21 Sept 2026 View ↗

All documents on the council site ↗

Site constraints 8

Souldern 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 ↗
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.
Habitat network: Network Enhancement Zone 1
Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.
Radon affected area, class 5
An estimated 10 to 30% 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 ↗
9 listed buildings within 150 m of the postcode pin
Nearest: Greystones, Grade II, about 36 m from the postcode pin · 9 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.
Show all 9 with distances
Historic England ↗
Also on the record
Registered park or garden about 178 m away: Aynho Park; National infrastructure project about 1831 m away: Oxfordshire Strategic Rail Freight Interchange; Priority habitat about 46 m away: Traditional orchard.
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, 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.

Sales history 2

Last sold for £157,000 in February 1997. Detached house, freehold.

7 February 1997£157,000
13 April 1995£163,000

Sale prices from HM Land Registry's price paid record, matched to this application by its address.

Work with planning data?

Every application in Cherwell - and every UK council - as a live feed, an API, or a bulk CSV export.

About Plota's data service

Nearby new applications

1 Oct 2026Pending

Souldern House Street Through Souldern Souldern OX27 7LA

T1 Apple – Crown reduce by approximately 0.5/0.75 metres in height, and laterall...

26/02479/TCA
28 Sept 2026Pending

Fox Hill Foxhill Lane Souldern Oxfordshire OX27 7JZ

Retrospective installation of two new windows to north elevation, bi-fold doors ...

26/02506/F
14 Sept 2026Pending

Rectory Cottage Church Lane Souldern OX27 7HU

A = Pine - fell B, C, D, E, F G, I, J = Leylandii - fell H - pussy willow - has ...

26/02261/TCA
1 Sept 2026Approved

Spring House Back Lane Souldern OX27 7JF

T1 Walnut - crown reduce by removing 2 metres from the entire crown area.

26/02248/TCA
24 Aug 2026Pending

Park House Street Through Souldern Souldern OX27 7LA

T1 – Cedar: Reduce and prune back the lateral branches and secondary growth exte...

26/02229/TCA
20 Aug 2026Pending

Rectory Cottage Church Lane Souldern Bicester OX27 7HU

Please identify the trees A = Pine - fell, very large and taking like away and o...

26/02228/TCA

Important details

Council
Cherwell
Application type
Works To Trees In Conservation Area
Postcode
OX27 7JU
Received
21 Sept 2026
Validated
21 Sept 2026
Case officer
Show
Target decision
2 Nov 2026
Decision level
Delegated
Applicant
Show
Agent
Bicester Tree Services

Decision outlook

Day 38 of the 56-day target. Cherwell usually decides tree and landscaping works by day 38.

Day 3818 days to the 56-day target
90%decided within 8 weeks
96%approved
396decided in the last year

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

Historical activity at this location

31 previous applications on record - archival context, not part of the live application.

This property

Previous applications at this address

2025 Approved
lawson cypress (T1) -reduce by approximately 3 metres in height. hawthorn (T2) - Re-polla…
25/03005/TCA
2025 Approved
lawson cypress (T1) -reduce by approximately 3 metres in height. hawthorn (T2) - Re-polla…
25/03005/TCA
2021 Withdrawn
Erection of a 2 bay oak frame garage with loft space - re-submission of 20/03552/F
21/01065/F
2021 Withdrawn
Erection of a 2 bay oak frame garage with loft space - re-submission of 20/03552/F
21/01065/F
2020
H1 x Hornbeam Hedge; an unmanaged hedge - Reduce the entire crown area by up to 2.0m to a…
20/02895/TCA
2020
H1 x Hornbeam Hedge; an unmanaged hedge - Reduce the entire crown area by up to 2.0m to a…
20/02895/TCA
Within ~100m

Nearby activity

2025 Approved
Applegarth Bates Lane Souldern Bicester OX27 7JU
Repair of part-fallen stone wall
25/03333/F
2025 Approved
Applegarth Bates Lane Souldern Bicester OX27 7JU
Repair of part-fallen stone wall
25/03333/F
2025 Approved
1 Chapel Row High Street Souldern Oxfordshire OX27 7JR
Front extension and replacement windows with associated internal and external works
25/02660/F
2025 Approved
1 Chapel Row High Street Souldern Oxfordshire OX27 7JR
Front extension and replacement windows with associated internal and external works
25/02660/F
2025 Approved
Home Farm House Bates Lane Souldern Oxfordshire OX27 7JU
Single storey extension to rear
25/02267/F
2025 Approved
Home Farm House Bates Lane Souldern Oxfordshire OX27 7JU
Single storey extension to rear
25/02267/F
2025
The Brambles Bates Lane Souldern OX27 7JU
T1 : Prunus Cerasitera - Fell. T2: Conifer - Fell T3: Conifer - Fell T4: Ceanothus - Fell
25/02099/TCA
2024
Souldern Manor Bates Lane Souldern OX27 7JT
T1 - Sycamore x Proposal to reduce Eastern crown over neighbours boundary, by 2.5/3 metre…
24/03293/TCA
2024
Souldern Manor Bates Lane Souldern OX27 7JT
T1 - Sycamore x Proposal to reduce Eastern crown over neighbours boundary, by 2.5/3 metre…
24/03293/TCA
2024
Souldern Manor Bates Lane Souldern OX27 7JT
These trees are affected by Hornet Moth (Sesia Apiformis), resulting in past failures of…
24/00731/TCA
2024
Souldern Manor Bates Lane Souldern OX27 7JT
These trees are affected by Hornet Moth (Sesia Apiformis), resulting in past failures of…
24/00731/TCA
2023 Approved
2 Cotswold Court Souldern Bicester OX27 7LQ
Single storey rear storey extension, single storey side extension and associated landscap…
23/03208/F
2023 Approved
2 Cotswold Court Souldern Bicester OX27 7LQ
Single storey rear storey extension, single storey side extension and associated landscap…
23/03208/F
2023 Approved
Souldern Manor Bates Lane Souldern Bicester OX27 7JT
T1 x Horse Chestnut – Proposal to reduce large lateral limbs on Southern and Northern sid…
23/03504/TCA
2023 Approved
Souldern Manor Bates Lane Souldern Bicester OX27 7JT
T1 x Horse Chestnut – Proposal to reduce large lateral limbs on Southern and Northern sid…
23/03504/TCA
2023 Refused
2 Cotswold Court Souldern Bicester OX27 7LQ
Single storey rear extension, internal and external alterations to an existing residentia…
23/02407/F
2023 Refused
2 Cotswold Court Souldern Bicester OX27 7LQ
Single storey rear extension, internal and external alterations to an existing residentia…
23/02407/F
2022 Approved
Cider Cottage Bates Lane Souldern OX27 7JU
Alterations to fenestration to front elevation and ground floor fenestration to rear elev…
22/01097/F
2022 Approved
Cider Cottage Bates Lane Souldern OX27 7JU
Alterations to fenestration to front elevation and ground floor fenestration to rear elev…
22/01097/F
2022 Approved
Westend House Bates Lane Souldern Oxfordshire OX27 7JU
Single storey rear extension
22/00583/F
2016 Approved
Appleton Lodge High Street Souldern Bicester OX27 7JR
Enlarge existing dormer windows and provide new pitched roofs over. New single storey ext…
16/01828/F
2016 Approved
Westend House Bates Lane Souldern Bicester OX27 7JU
T1 x Fig Tree- Fell
16/00218/TCA
2016 Approved
Rose Cottage Bates Lane Souldern Bicester OX27 7JU
T1 x Holly Tree - Fell
16/00146/TCA
2016 Approved
Garden Cottage Bates Lane Souldern Bicester OX27 7JT
G1 x Sycamore - Reduce height on the north boundary to a height of up to 5.0m.
16/00132/TCA
2016 Approved
Keepers Cottage Bates Lane Souldern Bicester OX27 7JU
T1 x Apple - Crown reduce by 25%
16/00077/TCA
Cherwell
Planning Authority Score
3.6/10
Below average
#214 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
Other decisions

Cherwell is slower than most councils at deciding householder applications, ranking #247 out of 296. 49% of applications have the time limit extended, above the 41% national average. Householder applications are slightly more likely to be approved here (94%) 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
Cherwell decision statistics
Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026
92%
Overall approval rate
Above avg (87%) #77 of 296
94%
Householder approved
Above avg (90%) #101 of 296
47%
Decided in 8 weeks
Below avg (63%) #247 of 296
49%
Extended time limit
Above avg (41%) #218 of 296
77%
Minor dwellings approved
117 decided (1-9 homes)
95%
Major dwellings approved
19 decided (10+ homes)
96%
Change of use approved
47 decided
1,091
Total decisions
90 refused in the year to March 2026
Source: MHCLG planning statistics · See full council rankings

Sale prices: Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.