Amesbury Abbey Nursing Home, Abbey Mews, Amesbury, Salisbury, SP4 7EX Data via plota.co.uk

PL/2026/05902 - Notification of proposed works to trees in a conservation area Submitted
Trees & landscaping

Proposal

Mews 1 - 15 dead Ash (marked) remove Mews 2 - 22 dead Ash (marked) 2 dead Sycamore (marked) 3 dead Elm (marked) remove all Hatches - Clump of trees overhaning into the river - remove Dead tree (marked) - remove Right Hand Riverbank (near side) - 2 dead Ash (marked) - remove Left Hand Riverbank - 4 dead Ash (marked) 2 dead Elm (marked) - remove Park - 1 dead Ash (marked) - remove Front of Abbey - 1 Cedar to deadwood - Area highlighted on plan - Cherry Laurel and Cypress trees (x4) - remove whole area to ground level. Area is planned to be restored to more formal hedge (c. 50m with around 100 plants) and planting of 5 replacement ornamental trees Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
around 17 Sept 2026
Decision
Expected by 12 Nov 2026

Under consideration

No decision has been issued yet. Plota predicts a decision around 25 Oct 2026, from Wiltshire's recent tree and landscaping works.

Comments are open until 14 Oct 2026

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Documents 3

Plans & drawings 1

PDF Site Plan Plan · 17 Sept 2026 View ↗

Application forms 1

PDF REDApplicationFormRedacted.pdf Application Form · 17 Sept 2026 View ↗

Other documents 1

PDF Schedule of Tree Works Report · 17 Sept 2026 View ↗

All documents on the council site ↗

Site constraints 12

Nutrient neutrality catchment: River Avon SAC
New homes and overnight accommodation must show nutrient neutrality before approval.
Natural England advice: extra wastewater in these catchments harms protected habitats, so schemes must offset their nutrient load, usually through credits.
Registered park or garden: Amesbury Abbey
Nationally designated heritage. Its significance and setting carry great weight.
Registered parks and gardens, battlefields, world heritage sites and protected wrecks are designated heritage assets: harm needs clear and convincing justification.
Historic England ↗
Amesbury 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 ↗
Special area of conservation about 40 m away: River Avon
Work nearby can need a habitats assessment.
Harm to a protected site is only accepted where there is no alternative and an overriding public interest.
Agricultural land, grade 3a
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 4. 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.
National infrastructure project about 126 m away: A303 Stonehenge
The site is about 126 m from the project boundary. Highway, decided. The project page says whether consent was granted.
Nationally significant infrastructure projects (power stations, electricity lines, pipelines, major roads and railways, harbours, airports and reservoirs) are consented by a Secretary of State under the Planning Act 2008, after an examination by the Planning Inspectorate, rather than by the council. The boundary is the one the Inspectorate consults on and can change as the scheme does. Projects are shown within 2 km of the site.
Planning Inspectorate project page ↗
SSSI about 40 m away: Britford Water Meadows SSSI
Natural England may need consulting, depending on what is proposed.
Sites of special scientific interest are the best wildlife and geological sites in the country. Development likely to harm one is rarely permitted.
Habitat network: Wood pasture and parkland
Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.
2 listed buildings within 150 m of the postcode pin
Nearest: Weir Bridge in Amesbury Abbey Park, Grade II, about 56 m from the postcode pin · 1 Grade I, 1 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 ↗
Also on the record
Radon affected area, class 2; Priority habitat about 11 m away: Deciduous woodland; Flood defence about 41 m from the postcode pin (natural high ground, designed for a 1 in 2 year flood).
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.

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Important details

Council
Wiltshire
Application type
Notification of proposed works to trees in a conservation area
Postcode
SP4 7EX
Received
around 17 Sept 2026
Validated
17 Sept 2026
Ward
Amesbury West ED
Parish
Amesbury CP
Case officer
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Decision outlook

Day 22 of the 56-day target. Wiltshire usually decides tree and landscaping works by day 38.

Day 2234 days to the 56-day target
95%decided within 8 weeks
99%approved
1,246decided in the last year

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

Public comments

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Last counted 1 Oct 2026

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Consultation & key dates

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14 Oct 2026

Historical activity at this location

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

This property

Previous applications at this address

2025 Approved
All tree work descriptions in tree works document. Carry out removals of Ash Dieback affe…
PL/2025/04124
2024 Approved
Excavations within the rooting area of protected trees
PL/2024/04361
2022 Approved
Multiple trees - Please see attached schedule
PL/2022/04386
Within ~100m

Nearby activity

2025 Approved
DIANAS HOUSE, ABBEY MEWS, AMESBURY, SALISBURY, SP4 7EX
T1 Walnut tree - Fell. T2 Unknown Species - Fell.
PL/2025/07065
2024 Approved
Amesbury Abbey Nursing Home, Abbey Mews, Amesbury, Salisbury, Wilts, SP4 7EX
Installation of new boiler flue
PL/2024/09751
2023 Approved
Amesbury Abbey Nursing Home, Abbey Mews, Amesbury, Salisbury, Wilts, SP4 7EX
Discharge of condition 2 of PL/2022/03921
PL/2023/04245
2022 Approved
Amesbury Abbey Nursing Home, Abbey Mews, Amesbury, Salisbury, Wilts, SP4 7EX
Structural repairs of Grade II* Listed bridge over River Avon
PL/2022/03921
2020 Approved
Dianas House Abbey Mews Amesbury SP4 7EX
Installation of 1m High fence.
20/02130/FUL
2019 Withdrawn
Antrobus Estate Amesbury SP4 7EX
(1429) - Beech tree - fell (618) - Lime tree - reduce back northern lateral limb
19/09850/TCA
2019 Withdrawn
Antrobus Estate Amesbury SP4 7EX
Fell the following trees: 3 x Ash 1 x Sycamore 1 x Yew 1 x Holly 2 x Horse Chestnut 1 x L…
19/09128/DDD
2018 Approved
Dianas House Abbey Mews Amesbury Salisbury Wiltshire SP4 7EX
Discharge of conditions 3 and 4 of 18/08146/FUL (Erection of a garden studio, a log shed…
18/10889/DOC
2018 Withdrawn
Amesbury Abbey Amesbury SP4 7EX
Group of Ash and Sycamore trees - fell
18/11804/TCA
2018 Approved
Dianas House Abbey Mews Amesbury SP4 7EX
Erection of a garden studio, a log shed and retrospective permission for a tool shed
18/08146/FUL
2017 Withdrawn
Amesbury Abbey Nursing Home Abbey Mews Amesbury Salisbury Wiltshire SP4 7EX
Removal of Fir/Cypress Tree Removal of Holm Oak
17/10918/TCA
2017 Withdrawn
Dianas House Abbey Mews Amesbury Wiltshire SP4 7EX
Construction of a garden studio, hexagonal with Ogee roof to be sympathetic to the house.
17/11100/FUL
2017 Withdrawn
Dianas House Abbey Mews Amesbury Salisbury Wiltshire SP4 7EX
2 Yew trees - fell
17/10142/TCA
2016 Withdrawn
1 Abbey Mews Amesbury Salisbury Wiltshire SP4 7EX
T1 - Holm Oak - Remove
16/01841/TCA
Wiltshire
Planning Authority Score
3.9/10
Below average
#203 of 296 councils
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Other decisions

Wiltshire is slower than most councils at deciding householder applications, ranking #225 out of 296. The council extends the time limit on 55% of applications - one of the highest rates in England. Expect your application to take longer than the standard deadline. Householder applications are slightly more likely to be approved here (96%) than the national average (90%).

Frequently extends decision deadlines
expect longer than the statutory limit
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Wiltshire decision statistics
Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026
93%
Overall approval rate
Above avg (87%) #71 of 296
96%
Householder approved
Above avg (90%) #65 of 296
53%
Decided in 8 weeks
Below avg (63%) #225 of 296
55%
Extended time limit
Above avg (41%) #252 of 296
78%
Minor dwellings approved
339 decided (1-9 homes)
90%
Major dwellings approved
48 decided (10+ homes)
92%
Change of use approved
160 decided
3,659
Total decisions
256 refused in the year to March 2026
Source: MHCLG planning statistics · See full council rankings