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Merryfield Church Lane High Street Prestbury Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL52 3AP

24/02059/CACNConservation Area NotificationApproved
Prior approval

Approved on 13 December 2024

Council decision: No objection raisedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

T1 - Blue cedar works (rear garden):- Dead wood entire crown (no permission required) - Crown raise - removal of 3 branches. - Crown reduction by 2m. T2 - Cedar (front): - Dead wood the entire crown to 25mm (no permission required) - Thin the top 5m of the tree in line with BS3998 (2010). - Reduce the crown by up to 3m at lower levels.

Received
9 December 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Prestbury
Agent
Silver Tree Services
  1. Received9 Dec
  2. Validated13 Dec
  3. Consult.
  4. Target24 Jan
  5. Decided13 Dec

Decided in 0 days (council typically 35)

About this application

This is a heritage application at Merryfield Church Lane High Street Prestbury Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL52 3AP. Cheltenham has handled 1,724 applications of this type. This one was decided in 4 days, 4 weeks quicker than Cheltenham's typical decision time. The site is in the Prestbury conservation area, with 16 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 49 applications across Prestbury. We hold 1,676 applications in total for the GL52 postcode area.

99% of heritage applications at Cheltenham Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 5 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
GL52 3AP
Application type
Conservation Area Notification
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Prestbury

Planning application dates

Date validated
13 December 2024
Target decision date
24 January 2025
Permission expires
13 December 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent
Silver Tree Services
Agent address
132 Slad Road Stroud GL5 1RE

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13622839
Comments
0
Documents
5
Constraints
2

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: The Prestbury Conservation Area
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.

Also checked, none recorded (22)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, Article 4 directions, 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

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© 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.

Planning history at this site

1 other application at this property, newest first.

  1. 2025
    6 Nov

    Cypress (as indicated by photo) - Remove

    ApprovedConservation Area Notification25/01789/CACN

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