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Parish Church Of Chalfont St Giles High Street Chalfont St Giles Buckinghamshire

PL/25/4810/KAWorks to trees in Conservation AreaRefused

Refused on 4 December 2025

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

Proposal

Holly tree - Crown lifting by 2 metres. Crown reduce by 2 metres and Crown shaping by 0.5 metres. (Chalfont St Giles Conservation Area).

Received
27 October 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Chalfont St Giles and Little Chalfont
  1. Received27 Oct
  2. Validated27 Oct
  3. Consult.18 Nov
  4. Target8 Dec
  5. Decided4 Dec

Decided in 38 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at Parish Church Of Chalfont St Giles High Street Chalfont St Giles Buckinghamshire. Buckinghamshire has handled 1,085 applications of this type. This one was decided in 38 days, 3 weeks quicker than Buckinghamshire's typical decision time. The site is in the Chalfont St Giles conservation area, with 15 listed buildings nearby. There have been 3 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 195 applications across Chalfont St Giles and Little Chalfont.

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 in Conservation Area
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Chalfont St Giles

Planning application dates

Date validated
27 October 2025
Consultation expiry
18 November 2025
Consultation start
28 October 2025
Consultation end
18 November 2025
Last date for comments
18 November 2025
Target decision date
8 December 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: Chalfont St Giles
  • Listed building: Grade I: Parish Church of St GilesOn or next to this site
  • Article 4 direction: Whole District excluding the Town of Chesham - 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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