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26/00285/TCON - Works to Tree(s) in a Conservation Area Approved
Trees & landscaping

Proposal

Clear a pathway (Shown in green highligther) through scrubland, approx 1m wide, to faciliate access to maintain the castles uplighting fixtures. This will include removal of some self set trees which exceed 75mm in diameter. Location is on the embankment/Terrace Range, to the North West of the site. Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
4 Aug 2026
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Consultation
6 Aug 2026
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Approved
8 Sept 2026

Approved on 8 Sept 2026 · Delegated Decision · Last checked 5 Oct 2026

Documents 10

Decision & officer reports 2

PDF DECISION NOTICE Decision · 8 Sept 2026 View ↗ PDF OFFICER REPORT Officer Report · 8 Sept 2026 View ↗

Plans & drawings 1

PDF LOCATION PLAN Drawing · 4 Aug 2026 View ↗

Application forms 1

PDF APPLICATION FORM - WITHOUT PERSONAL DATA Application Form · 4 Aug 2026 View ↗

Other documents 6

PDF SITE NOTICE Correspondence · 6 Aug 2026 View ↗ IMG PHOTOGRAPHS AND PHOTOMONTAGES Photo · 4 Aug 2026 View ↗ IMG PHOTOGRAPHS AND PHOTOMONTAGES Photo · 4 Aug 2026 View ↗ IMG PHOTOGRAPHS AND PHOTOMONTAGES Photo · 4 Aug 2026 View ↗ IMG PHOTOGRAPHS AND PHOTOMONTAGES Photo · 4 Aug 2026 View ↗ IMG PHOTOGRAPHS AND PHOTOMONTAGES Photo · 4 Aug 2026 View ↗

All documents on the council site ↗

Site constraints 8

Scheduled monument: Bolsover Castle: eleventh century motte and bailey castle, twelfth century tower keep castle and seventeenth century country house.
Scheduled monument consent is needed for any work to it, separate from planning permission.
Nationally important archaeology protected by the Secretary of State. Work that affects the monument or its setting is rarely permitted.
Historic England ↗
Registered park or garden: Bolsover Castle
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 ↗
Bolsover 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.
Heritage at risk: Bolsover
On the register of historic places assessed as at risk.
A designated building, monument, park or conservation area assessed as at risk from neglect, decay or development. Proposals that secure its future are looked on favourably.
Historic England ↗
Agricultural land, grade 5
Very poor quality farmland, not best and most versatile. 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. A site survey can differ.
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.
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 ↗
Also on the record
Coalfield, development low risk area; Priority habitat about 10 m away: Deciduous woodland.
Not affected
Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt

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 Mining Remediation Authority, 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
Bolsover
Application type
Works to Tree(s) in a Conservation Area
Postcode
S44 6PR
Received
4 Aug 2026
Validated
4 Aug 2026
Ward
Bolsover North And Shuttlewood Ward
Parish
Old Bolsover Parish
Case officer
Show
Target decision
15 Sept 2026
Decision
Determine NOT to Make a TPO
Decision date
8 Sept 2026
Decision level
Delegated Decision
Applicant
Show
Agent
English Heritage

How this decision compares

Decided in 35 days from validation, about the council's usual 37 days. Approved, as 100% of tree and landscaping works here are.

100%decided within 8 weeks
100%approved
29decided in the last year

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

Public comments

No public comments yet.

8 neighbours consulted · Last counted 22 Sept 2026

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Consultation & key dates

Alt. reference
PP-15131957
Planning Portal ref
PP-15131957
Neighbours
6 Aug 2026
Consultation
6 Aug 2026
Comments by
25 Aug 2026
Site or press notice
11 Aug 2026
Statutory expiry
15 Sept 2026
Env. assessment
No

Historical activity at this location

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

This property

Previous applications at this address

2025 Approved
Tree works - (T3289 - Acer pseudoplatanus) - Fell down to 3m 2 stems closest to boundary…
25/00385/TCON
2025 Approved
Tree works - (T3289 - Acer pseudoplatanus) - Fell down to 3m 2 stems closest to boundary…
25/00385/TCON
2025 Approved
To cut back overhanging branches. Tree numbers 34-40, Fagus Sylvatica and Acer Pseudoplat…
25/00296/TCON
2025 Approved
To cut back overhanging branches. Tree numbers 34-40, Fagus Sylvatica and Acer Pseudoplat…
25/00296/TCON
2025 Approved
To site a mobile catering trailer within the curtilage of a historic visitor attraction
25/00117/FUL
2025 Approved
To site a mobile catering trailer within the curtilage of a historic visitor attraction
25/00117/FUL
2024 Approved
Trees works (including crown reductions, removal of hanging deadwood branches) and to fel…
24/00409/TCON
2024 Approved
Trees works (including crown reductions, removal of hanging deadwood branches) and to fel…
24/00409/TCON
2023 Approved
Tree numbers: 1456 - Fell Tree. Ash dieback, category 2-3; dieback worsening from the top…
23/00518/TCON
2023 Approved
Tree numbers: 1456 - Fell Tree. Ash dieback, category 2-3; dieback worsening from the top…
23/00518/TCON
2023 Approved
To fell Large Ash and Sycamore tree adjacent and overhanging the property (60 Station Roa…
23/00385/TCON
2023 Approved
To fell Large Ash and Sycamore tree adjacent and overhanging the property (60 Station Roa…
23/00385/TCON
2022 Approved
Various works to 11 trees.
22/00501/TCON
2022 Approved
Various works to 11 trees.
22/00501/TCON
2021 Approved
Proposal for a new structural rainwater canopy within the Fountain Garden at Bolsover Cas…
21/00358/LBC
2021 Approved
Proposal for a new structural rainwater canopy within the Fountain Garden at Bolsover Cas…
21/00357/FUL
2021 Approved
Proposal for a new structural rainwater canopy within the Fountain Garden at Bolsover Cas…
21/00358/LBC
2021 Approved
Proposal for a new structural rainwater canopy within the Fountain Garden at Bolsover Cas…
21/00357/FUL
2021 Approved
Row of Lime trees adjacent to school (6 trees, 27-32) Crown lift to 4m above ground level.
21/00436/TCON
2021 Approved
Row of Lime trees adjacent to school (6 trees, 27-32) Crown lift to 4m above ground level.
21/00436/TCON
2016 Withdrawn
Installation of 2 car parking meters, 1 in each of the car parks at Bolsover Castle.One o…
16/00484/FUL
2016 Approved
Re-coppice previously coppiced trees upto 6-8 inches in Areas 1 and 3
16/00588/TCON
2016 Approved
Re-coppice previously coppiced trees upto 6-8 inches in Areas 1 and 3
16/00588/TCON
2016 Approved
Felling of group of 14 trees and leaving of stumps to coppice on steep bank at side of 60…
16/00489/TCON
2016 Approved
Felling of group of 14 trees and leaving of stumps to coppice on steep bank at side of 60…
16/00489/TCON
Bolsover
Planning Authority Score
8.2/10
Excellent
#20 of 296 councils
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Bolsover is faster than most councils at deciding householder applications, ranking #57 out of 296. Householder applications are more likely to be approved here than most councils, with a 98% approval rate vs 90% nationally.

More permissive than most councils
98% approved vs 90% nationally
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Bolsover decision statistics
Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026
96%
Overall approval rate
Above avg (87%) #8 of 296
98%
Householder approved
Above avg (90%) #11 of 296
77%
Decided in 8 weeks
Above avg (63%) #57 of 296
35%
Extended time limit
Below avg (41%) #98 of 296
98%
Minor dwellings approved
46 decided (1-9 homes)
86%
Major dwellings approved
7 decided (10+ homes)
91%
Change of use approved
35 decided
286
Total decisions
11 refused in the year to March 2026
Source: MHCLG planning statistics · See full council rankings