Land North And South Of Marston Ferry Road Oxford Oxfordshire Data via plota.co.uk

26/02373/ENT - Tree Exemption Notice Approved

Proposal

Fell 2no. Populus trees as proposed by Four Seasons Tree Care Ltd as identified in the Oxfordshire County Council (Bullingdon No.17) Tree Preservation Order 1972 Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 7 Oct 2026, 05:21

Application progress

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Received

2 Oct 2026

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Approved

5 Oct 2026

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

Documents 14

Decision & officer reports 1

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Site constraints 8

Green belt: Oxford

Inappropriate development needs very special circumstances.

Green belt policy allows a short list of exceptions, such as limited extensions and replacement buildings. Anything else needs very special circumstances that clearly outweigh the harm. Some green belt land can count as grey belt, where it does not strongly serve the green belt's purposes. The council decides this in its green belt assessment or on each application, so we do not mark it here.

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Article 4 direction

Houses in Multiple Occupation Article 4 Direction. Named permitted development rights are withdrawn here.

An Article 4 direction withdraws particular permitted development rights, so work that would normally need no application needs one here. Not every council has published its directions.

Agricultural land, grade 3b

Not 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.

Air quality management area: The City of Oxford

The council has declared the area as failing an air quality objective.

Schemes that add traffic, parking or combustion plant are assessed against the area's action plan and may need an air quality assessment.

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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

SSSI 374 m away: New Marston Meadows SSSI; Priority habitat 23 m away: Good quality semi improved grassland; National infrastructure project 1732 m away: East West Rail - Bedford to Cambridge and Western improvements, at pre-application.

Not affected

Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · No listed building at the site · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 6 October 2026. Historic England, the Environment Agency, Natural England, the Planning Inspectorate 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: Oxford
Application type: Tree Exemption Notice
Received: 2 Oct 2026
Validated: 2 Oct 2026
Ward: Summertown
Case officer: Show
Target decision: 9 Oct 2026
Decision: Raise No Objection
Decision date: 5 Oct 2026
Decision level: Delegated Decision
Applicant: Show
Agent: Ben Marsh

How this decision compares

Decided in 3 days from validation, 23 days faster than Oxford's median of 26 for tree and landscaping works. Approved, as 99% of tree and landscaping works here are.

This one3d

Council26d

UK36d

100%decided within 8 weeks

99%approved

445decided in the last year

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

Public comments

No public comments yet.

Last counted 5 Oct 2026

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Consultation & key dates

Statutory expiry: 9 Oct 2026
Env. assessment: No

Oxford

Planning Authority Score

1.8/10

Poor

#277 of 296 councils

Relevant to this application:

Householder decisions

Oxford is slower than most councils at deciding householder applications, ranking #261 out of 296. The council extends the time limit on 57% of applications - one of the highest rates in England. Expect your application to take longer than the standard deadline. Householder applications are slightly less likely to be approved here (89%) than the national average (90%).

Frequently extends decision deadlines

expect longer than the statutory limit

These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance

Oxford decision statistics

Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026

88%

Overall approval rate

Above avg (87%) #159 of 296

89%

Householder approved

Below avg (90%) #205 of 296

43%

Decided in 8 weeks

Below avg (63%) #261 of 296

57%

Extended time limit

Above avg (41%) #259 of 296

61%

Minor dwellings approved

64 decided (1-9 homes)

100%

Major dwellings approved

5 decided (10+ homes)

75%

Change of use approved

117 decided

1,150

Total decisions

140 refused in the year to March 2026