Garden Cottage 73 Clifden Road Worminghall Buckinghamshire HP18 9JR Data via plota.co.uk

Registered PL/26/08344/TP

Trees & landscaping

Council

Buckinghamshire 1.3/10

Date received

around 23 Oct 2026

Date validated

23 Oct 2026

Postcode

HP18 9JR

Description

T1 - Ash - Reduce Ash tree by removing up to 2.5m of height and lateral spread as branches are too heavy and are dropping deadwood. Data via plota.co.uk

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Last checked 27 Oct 2026, 13:13

Decision outlook

Plota predicts a decision between 1 Dec 2026 and 8 Dec 2026, from Buckinghamshire's recent tree and landscaping works.

Day 5 of the 56-day target. Buckinghamshire usually decides tree and landscaping works by day 42.

prediction

Day 551 days to the 56-day target

81%decided within 8 weeks

91%approved

945decided in the last year

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

Site constraints 4

Also on the record

Radon affected area, class 2; 1 listed building within 150 m of the postcode pin; Inside the Worminghall built-up area; Natural England's Provisional ALC map (1:250,000, 1970s) had this area as grade 4, but it predates the buildings here and the current map does not class it as farmland.

Not affected

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

Checked on 27 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 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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Buckinghamshire

Planning Authority Score

1.3/10

Poor

#284 of 296 councils

Relevant to this application:

Householder decisions

Buckinghamshire is one of the slowest councils in England for householder decisions, ranking #280 out of 296. 55% of applications have the time limit extended, above the 41% national average. Householder applications are slightly less likely to be approved here (86%) than the national average (90%).

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for householder decisions

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Buckinghamshire decision statistics

Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026

84%

Overall approval rate

Below avg (87%) #217 of 296

86%

Householder approved

Below avg (90%) #241 of 296

34%

Decided in 8 weeks

Below avg (63%) #280 of 296

55%

Extended time limit

Above avg (41%) #248 of 296

76%

Minor dwellings approved

491 decided (1-9 homes)

82%

Major dwellings approved

71 decided (10+ homes)

82%

Change of use approved

131 decided

4,446

Total decisions

690 refused in the year to March 2026