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26/02248/TCA - Works To Trees In Conservation Area Approved
Trees & landscaping

Proposal

T1 Walnut - crown reduce by removing 2 metres from the entire crown area. Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
1 Sept 2026
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Approved
7 Oct 2026

Approved on 7 Oct 2026 · Delegated · Last checked 13 Oct 2026

Documents 8

Decision & officer reports 2

PDF Decision Document · 13 Oct 2026 View ↗ PDF Officer Report Document · 7 Oct 2026 View ↗

Other documents 6

PDF Case Correspondence Document · 8 Sept 2026 View ↗ PDF Case Correspondence Document · 8 Sept 2026 View ↗ PDF Application Documents Document · 1 Sept 2026 View ↗ PDF Application Documents Document · 1 Sept 2026 View ↗ PDF Application Documents Document · 1 Sept 2026 View ↗ PDF Application Documents Document · 1 Sept 2026 View ↗

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Site constraints 6

7 listed buildings within 150 m of the postcode pin
Nearest: Great House Close, Grade II, about 9 m from the postcode pin · 7 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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Historic England ↗
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.
Also on the record
Radon affected area, class 2; National infrastructure project about 1734 m away: Oxfordshire Strategic Rail Freight Interchange.
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 1

Last sold for £700,000 in September 2015. Detached house, freehold.

24 September 2015£700,000

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

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Important details

Council
Cherwell
Application type
Works To Trees In Conservation Area
Postcode
OX27 7JF
Received
1 Sept 2026
Validated
1 Sept 2026
Ward
Deddington
Parish
Souldern
Case officer
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Target decision
13 Oct 2026
Decision
Permitted
Decision date
7 Oct 2026
Decision level
Delegated
Applicant
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How this decision compares

Decided in 36 days from validation, about the council's usual 38 days. Approved, as 96% of tree and landscaping works here are.

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

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

This property

Previous applications at this address

2020
T1 Holly, Crown reduce to create a more uniform appearance removing up to 1.5m. T2 Walnut…
20/02086/TCA
2020
T1 Holly, Crown reduce to create a more uniform appearance removing up to 1.5m. T2 Walnut…
20/02086/TCA
Within ~100m

Nearby activity

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Like-for-like replacement of two front facing downstairs windows
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2023 Approved
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2023 Approved
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2023
Alley Cottage The Hill Souldern Bicester OX27 7JF
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23/01030/TCA
2023
Alley Cottage The Hill Souldern Bicester OX27 7JF
T1 x Removal of Field Maple from roadside hedge T2 x Reduce height of overgrown Leylandii…
23/01030/TCA
2022 Approved
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2022 Approved
Souldern Court High Street Souldern OX27 7JH
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2022 Approved
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2022 Approved
Church Of The Annunciation To The Blessed Virgin Mary Church Lane Souldern OX27 7JQ
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2022 Approved
Rock Cottage The Hill Souldern OX27 7JE
Existing, unauthorised window sashes replaced with compliant design slimlite individual p…
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2022 Approved
Rock Cottage The Hill Souldern OX27 7JE
Existing, unauthorised window sashes replaced with compliant design slimlite individual p…
22/00465/LB
2021 Refused
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RETROSPECTIVE - Like-for-like replacement of timber sash windows with thin double glazed…
21/03852/LB
2021 Refused
Rock Cottage The Hill Souldern OX27 7JE
RETROSPECTIVE - Like-for-like replacement of timber sash windows with thin double glazed…
21/03852/LB
2021 Refused
Souldern Court High Street Souldern OX27 7JH
T1 x Yew in rear garden. This tree has been being monitored by ourselves (Treetops) for w…
21/03916/TCA
2021 Refused
Souldern Court High Street Souldern OX27 7JH
T1 x Yew in rear garden. This tree has been being monitored by ourselves (Treetops) for w…
21/03916/TCA
2018 Approved
Pond Cottage The Hill Souldern Bicester OX27 7JE
T1 x Yew - Prune back from property to allow 1.5m clearance from property, Crown lift up…
18/00143/TCA
2018 Approved
Hollies Farm The Hill Souldern Bicester OX27 7JF
Insertion of new opening in garden wall (Retrospective)
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2018 Approved
Hollies Farm The Hill Souldern Bicester OX27 7JF
Insertion of new opening in garden wall (Retrospective)
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2017 Approved
Souldern Court High Street Souldern Bicester OX27 7JH
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2017 Approved
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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.