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Monks Staithe Church Lane Princes Risborough Buckinghamshire HP27 9AW

PL/25/3059/KAWorks to trees in Conservation AreaRefused

Refused on 3 October 2025

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

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Crown reduce by 1.5meters in height and radial spread to give a more balanced and uniform shape to the crown and remove lower growth over the garden to raise the crown to around 3 meters over the garden and lawn to 1 x Ginkgo (T1) to maintain the tree at an appropriate size

Received
21 August 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Princes Risborough
Agent
4 Seasons Tree Care Ltd
  1. Received21 Aug
  2. Validated21 Aug
  3. Consult.30 Sep
  4. Target2 Oct
  5. Decided3 Oct

Decided in 43 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at Monks Staithe Church Lane Princes Risborough Buckinghamshire HP27 9AW. Buckinghamshire has handled 1,085 applications of this type. This one was decided in 43 days, 13 days quicker than Buckinghamshire's typical decision time. The site is in the Princes Risborough conservation area, with 6 listed buildings nearby. There have been 3 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 130 applications across Princes Risborough. We hold 2,241 applications in total for the HP27 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
HP27 9AW
Application type
Works to trees in Conservation Area
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Princes Risborough

Planning application dates

Date validated
21 August 2025
Consultation expiry
30 September 2025
Consultation start
9 September 2025
Consultation end
30 September 2025
Last date for comments
30 September 2025
Target decision date
2 October 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent
4 Seasons Tree Care Ltd
Agent address
11 Pilots Place Haddenham Aylesbury HP17 8NW

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

Documents
2

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Princes Risborough
  • Listed building: Grade II: Monks StaitheOn this site
  • Article 4 direction: Former Wycombe Rural District - Poultry Production
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (21)

flood storage areas, tree preservation orders, 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: Buckinghamshire

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