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Vine Cottage, High Street, Freshford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7WF

25/04181/TCATree Works Notification in Con AreaApproved
Prior approval

Approved on 1 December 2025

Council decision: NO OBJECTIONNon-Planning applications

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Yew tree - Proposed to prune previously badly cut branches back to trunk. Prune a 75mm diameter branch and up to 6 smaller branches back to the trunk to raise the canopy on the west side.

Received
27 October 2025
Decision level
Non-Planning applications
Ward
Bathavon South
  1. Received27 Oct
  2. Validated27 Oct
  3. Consult.24 Nov
  4. Target8 Dec
  5. Decided1 Dec

Decided in 35 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a tree application at Vine Cottage , High Street, Freshford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7WF. Bath has handled 1,183 applications of this type. This one was decided in 35 days, 2 weeks quicker than Bath's typical decision time. The site is in the Freshford conservation area, with 16 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 153 applications across Bathavon South. We hold 3,428 applications in total for the BA2 postcode area.

100% of trees applications at Bath and North East Somerset Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 7 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
BA2 7WF
Application type
Tree Works Notification in Con Area
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Freshford

Planning application dates

Date validated
27 October 2025
Consultation expiry
24 November 2025
Consultation start
1 December 2025
Consultation end
24 November 2025
Target decision date
8 December 2025
Permission expires
1 December 2027

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14443486
UPRN
100121178077

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Freshford
  • Listed building: Grade II: Vine CottageOn this site · +3 more
  • Green belt: Bath and North East Somerset
  • National Landscape (AONB): Cotswolds
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions and tree preservation orders. Ask the council if these matter.

Also checked, none recorded (18)

flood storage areas, 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, 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

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© 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.

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