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West Wycombe Conservation Area West Wycombe Park West Wycombe Buckinghamshire

PL/25/4323/TPWorks to trees covered by TPOApproved

Approved on 14 December 2025

Council decision: Conditional permissionDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Remove broken hanging branch and reduce crown by up to 2m to rebalance canopy x 1 Walnut (T1848), crown lift to 4m to allow cricket net access and reduce overall canopy by 2m x 1 Lime (T525), fell to ground as severe decay in stem x 2 Sycamore (T1837 & T0597), remove branches with defects to make safe due to squirrel damage to branches over the A40 and walkway x 1 Beech (T1017), pollard to 4m due to stem decay x 1 Lime (T1219), reduce by 4m and veteranise due to stem decay x 1 Horse Chestnut (T1071), reduce limbs overhanging property boundary by up to 3m where needed x 1 Sycamore (T1314), reduce to 3m monolith due to stem decay x 1 Hornbeam (T0593), reduce to 3m monolith due to stem decay x 1 Horse Chestnut (T1055), fell to ground due to interference with property x 1 Alder (T1010) and reduce major limb over highway by up to 3m x 1 Ash (T1)

Received
6 October 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
West Wycombe and Lane End
  1. Received6 Oct
  2. Validated6 Oct
  3. Consult.8 Dec
  4. Target1 Dec
  5. Decided14 Dec

Decided in 69 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at West Wycombe Conservation Area West Wycombe Park West Wycombe Buckinghamshire. Buckinghamshire has handled 1,085 applications of this type. This one was decided in 69 days, 13 days longer than Buckinghamshire's typical decision time. The site is in the West Wycombe conservation area. There have been 13 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 26 applications across West Wycombe and Lane End.

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

Application type
Works to trees covered by TPO
Scale / size
Small
Parish
West Wycombe

Planning application dates

Date validated
6 October 2025
Consultation expiry
8 December 2025
Consultation start
17 November 2025
Consultation end
8 December 2025
Last date for comments
8 December 2025
Target decision date
1 December 2025

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
7

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: West Wycombe
  • Tree Preservation Order: Ref 06/1984+1 more
  • Green belt: Buckinghamshire
  • Registered park and garden: West Wycombe Park
  • National Landscape (AONB): Chilterns
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (19)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, Article 4 directions, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, 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

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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