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Cedar House 20B Ledmore Road Charlton Kings Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL53 8RA

25/01659/TPOTree Preservation OrderApproved

Approved on 14 November 2025

Council decision: PermitDelegated (officer decision)

Site boundary (council red line)

Proposal

To remove selected limb from Poplar Tree overhanging 52 School Road, to fell to ground level and remove Ash Tree on neighbouring boundary, to reduce in height of Conifer tree at front of property to match height of hedge.

Received
14 October 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
1
Ward
Charlton Kings
  1. Received14 Oct
  2. Validated17 Oct
  3. Consult.10 Nov
  4. Target12 Dec
  5. Decided14 Nov

Decided in 28 days (council typically 35)

About this application

This is a tree application at Cedar House 20B Ledmore Road Charlton Kings Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL53 8RA. Cheltenham has handled 243 applications of this type. This one was decided in 31 days, 4 days quicker than Cheltenham's typical decision time. The site is in 1 listed building nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 39 applications across Charlton Kings. We hold 1,445 applications in total for the GL53 postcode area.

96% of trees 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
GL53 8RA
Application type
Tree Preservation Order
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Charlton Kings

Planning application dates

Date validated
17 October 2025
Consultation expiry
10 November 2025
Consultation start
20 October 2025
Consultation end
10 November 2025
Last date for comments
10 November 2025
Target decision date
12 December 2025
Permission expires
14 November 2027

Applicant and agent

Agent
Dowdeswell Forestry
Agent address
Keeper's Cottage Lower Dowdeswell Cheltenham GL54 4LX

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14400751
Documents
3
Constraints
3

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)Part of the site

Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.

Also checked, none recorded (23)

flood storage areas, conservation 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.

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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.

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Planning history at this site

1 other application at this property, newest first.

  1. 2026
    5 May

    Re-pollard 2 x Poplar Trees (T4 & T5) overhanging 52 School Road.

    ApprovedApplication26/00728/TPO

Source: Cheltenham

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