Hammersley Hatch Mill Lane Lower Slaughter Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL54 2HX Data via plota.co.uk

26/01943/TCONR - Works to trees in conservation areas Approved

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Conifer - fell tree Data via plota.co.uk

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Received

25 Jun 2026

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Approved

30 Jul 2026

Approved on 30 Jul 2026 · Delegated Decision · Last checked 30 Jul 2026

Documents 3

Decision & officer reports 1

PDF DECISION NOTICE Decision Notice · 30 Jul 2026 View ↗

Site constraints 6

Cotswolds National Landscape

Great weight to conserving the landscape; major development restricted.

Previously an area of outstanding natural beauty, which is still the designation in law. Since 2023 authorities must seek to further its purpose, not merely have regard to it.

Lower Slaughter 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.

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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 Expansion Zone

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

Also on the record

22 listed buildings within 150 m; Radon affected area, class 4.

Not affected

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

Checked on 6 October 2026. Historic England, the Environment Agency, Natural England, 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: Cotswold
Application type: Works to trees in conservation areas
Postcode: GL54 2HX
Received: 25 Jun 2026
Validated: 25 Jun 2026
Ward: Bourton Vale
Parish: Lower Slaughter
Case officer: Show
Target decision: 6 Aug 2026
Decision: No objection
Decision date: 30 Jul 2026
Decision level: Delegated Decision
Applicant: Show

How this decision compares

Decided in 35 days from validation, 7 days slower than Cotswold's median of 28 for tree and landscaping works. Approved, as 99% of tree and landscaping works here are.

This one35d

Council28d

UK36d

97%decided within 8 weeks

99%approved

757decided in the last year

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

Public comments

No public comments yet.

Last counted 30 Jul 2026

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Consultation & key dates

Alt. reference: PP-15038149
Planning Portal ref: PP-15038149
Comments by: 4 Jul 2026
Statutory expiry: 6 Aug 2026
Env. assessment: No

Historical activity at this location

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

This property