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Richmond Village Hatherley Lane Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL51 6PN

26/00830/TPOTree Preservation OrderApproved

Approved on 22 May 2026

Council decision: PermitDelegated (officer decision)

Site boundary (council red line)

Proposal

Tag No 120 (ID 40) - Perdunculate Oak - remove all major deadwood, Tag No 115 (ID 50) - Western Red Cedar - Reduce eastern leader from 5m to 3m by 1m or nearest outward facing growth point. (Formative pruning to stop co-dominacy and reduce future risk of failure), Tag No 872 (ID 129) - Sycamore - Dismantle all stems to ground level, Tree in terminal decline with severe Cryptostroma corticale infection and within falling distance of road - Replacement of this tree recommended, Tag No 1116 (ID 163) - Pedunculate Oak - Reduce in height from 10m to 7m by 3m. Reduce radius on eastern and southern side from 7m to 6m by 1m. Works to reduce weight and wind loading on compromised stem, reducing liklihood of failure,Tag No 2733 (ID 167) - Sycamore - Tree in terminal decline with severe Cryptostroma corticale infection. Tree and deadwood are within falling distance of client garden.

Received
21 May 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Benhall/The Reddings/Fiddlers Green
Agent
MB Treecare and Grounds Maintenance Ltd
  1. Received21 May
  2. Validated21 May
  3. Consult.
  4. Target16 Jul
  5. Decided22 May

Decided in 1 day (council typically 35)

About this application

This is a tree application at Richmond Village Hatherley Lane Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL51 6PN. Cheltenham has handled 243 applications of this type. This one was decided in 1 day, 5 weeks quicker than Cheltenham's typical decision time. There have been 3 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 38 applications across Benhall/The Reddings/Fiddlers Green. We hold 1,099 applications in total for the GL51 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
GL51 6PN
Application type
Tree Preservation Order
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
21 May 2026
Target decision date
16 July 2026
Permission expires
22 May 2028

Applicant and agent

Agent
MB Treecare and Grounds Maintenance Ltd
Agent address
Honeysuckle Cottage Radford Road Rous Lench Evesham WR11 4UL

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14952643
Comments
0
Documents
4
Constraints
2

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.

Also checked, none recorded (22)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, 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

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: Cheltenham

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