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St Marys Church Church Street Princes Risborough Buckinghamshire

PL/26/01234/KAWorks to trees in Conservation AreaRefused

Refused on 11 March 2026

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

Proposal

Reduce by removing up to 2m apical and lateral growth and crown lift to 5.5m from ground level over the highway x 2 Lime (T873 & T874) and re pollard at previous pollard points at approximately 5m from ground level x 4 Common Lime (T896, 897, 898 & 899)

Received
13 February 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Princes Risborough
Agent
Complete Tree Services UK LTD
  1. Received13 Feb
  2. Validated13 Feb
  3. Consult.10 Mar
  4. Target27 Mar
  5. Decided11 Mar

Decided in 26 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at St Marys Church Church Street Princes Risborough Buckinghamshire. Buckinghamshire has handled 1,085 applications of this type. This one was decided in 26 days, 4 weeks quicker than Buckinghamshire's typical decision time. The site is in the Princes Risborough conservation area, with 9 listed buildings nearby. There have been 5 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 130 applications across Princes Risborough.

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
Princes Risborough

Planning application dates

Date validated
13 February 2026
Consultation expiry
10 March 2026
Consultation start
17 February 2026
Consultation end
10 March 2026
Last date for comments
10 March 2026
Target decision date
27 March 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent
Complete Tree Services UK LTD
Agent address
The Cowshed Park Pale Farm Thame Road Brill HP18 9SA

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

Documents
2

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

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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