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St Thomas Nursing Home St Thomas Close Basingstoke Hampshire RG21 5NW

T/00452/24/TCAWorks to Trees - Conservation AreasApproved

Approved on 6 November 2024

Council decision: Raise No ObjectionDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

T9-T11 Limes. Remove deadwood. T12 Birch. Crown raise away from road/entrance to the home to 4m. T16-T18 Crab apple, cherry, pear. Reduce crowns of trees by up to 2m, trees are growing too big for the area and growing too close to the care home. FInished height 6m and crown spread 4m. T19 Poplar. Fell. Tree growing too close to the care home and the roots are growing into the foundations of the building. Perimeter hedges on south and west sides of the home to be reduced down to 1.8m above ground level to allow for annual maintenance. Lack of maintenance has allowed the hedges to grow too tall.

Received
13 September 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Norden
  1. Received13 Sep
  2. Validated17 Sep
  3. Consult.8 Oct
  4. Target29 Oct
  5. Decided6 Nov

Decided in 50 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a tree application at St Thomas Nursing Home St Thomas Close Basingstoke Hampshire RG21 5NW. Basingstoke has handled 1,580 applications of this type. This one was decided in 54 days, 5 days longer than Basingstoke's typical decision time. The site is in the South View conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 17 applications across Norden. We hold 1,110 applications in total for the RG21 postcode area.

95% of trees applications at Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 7 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
RG21 5NW
Application type
Works to Trees - Conservation Areas
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
17 September 2024
Consultation expiry
8 October 2024
Consultation end
8 October 2024
Last date for comments
8 October 2024
Target decision date
29 October 2024

Applicant and agent

Agent
S P Tree & Landscaping
Agent address
19 Newleaze Steeple Ashton Trowbridge BA14 6EF United Kingdom

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13405655
Comments
0
Documents
2

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • Conservation area: South View
  • Article 4 direction: Basingstoke Town and Chineham and the surrounding villages of Old Basing, Oakley and Sher…
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.

Also checked, none recorded (21)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, Heritage at Risk entries, nutrient neutrality catchments, national parks, National Landscapes, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves, heritage coasts and brownfield registers.

A guide only, from official open data; it is not a planning search. Flood zones cover rivers and sea, not surface water.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The Historic England GIS Data contained in this material was obtained on 2026-11-03. The most publicly available up to date Historic England GIS Data can be obtained from HistoricEngland.org.uk.

© Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Basingstoke

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