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Bell Gate Lodge Stowe Park Stowe Buckinghamshire MK18 5EE

25/00915/ATCWorks to trees in Conservation AreaRefused

Refused on 25 April 2025

Council decision: TPO shall not be madeDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

We would like to apply to crown lift up to 4m a group of 3 trees, within the red marked area on the sketch plan. The trees we would like to crown lift are a Lime (ref 00402), and 2 Beech trees (ref 00449 and 00413). We have put back a historical bench within the marked area within the garden at Bellgate Lodge, on the opposite side to the Lake Pavilion, that was originally around a tree. We have re-planted a smaller tree for the bench to go around and would like to crown lift the nearby trees to allow light in for this tree to grow and achieve a good shape. Not all of the branches on the trees referenced will need to be crown lifted but we want to make sure the trees still have a good shape once the branches over the new tree have been trimmed/crown lifted.

Received
26 March 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Buckingham
  1. Received26 Mar
  2. Validated26 Mar
  3. Consult.
  4. Target7 May
  5. Decided25 Apr

Decided in 30 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at Bell Gate Lodge Stowe Park Stowe Buckinghamshire MK18 5EE. Buckinghamshire has handled 1,085 applications of this type. This one was decided in 30 days, 4 weeks quicker than Buckinghamshire's typical decision time. The site is in the Stowe conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 139 applications across Buckingham. We hold 2,101 applications in total for the MK18 postcode area.

45% of trees applications at Buckinghamshire Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
MK18 5EE
Application type
Works to trees in Conservation Area
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Stowe

Planning application dates

Date validated
26 March 2025
Target decision date
7 May 2025

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

Documents
3

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: Stowe
  • Registered park and garden: Stowe
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (22)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, 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: Buckinghamshire

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