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Lake Cottage Lake Street Prestbury Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL52 3BH

26/01566/CACNConservation Area NotificationApproved
Prior approval

Approved on 15 October 2026

Council decision: No objection raisedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

To tidy garden side of Conifer tree/hedge (T1) pruning to boundary. Prune Silver Birch (T2) overhanging neighbours boundary back to boundary removing subordinate growth only.

Received
2 October 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Prestbury
  1. Received2 Oct
  2. Validated15 Oct
  3. Consult.
  4. Target26 Nov
  5. Decided15 Oct

Decided in 0 days (council typically 35)

About this application

This is a heritage application at Lake Cottage Lake Street Prestbury Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL52 3BH. Cheltenham has handled 1,724 applications of this type. This one was decided in 13 days, 3 weeks quicker than Cheltenham's typical decision time. The site is in the Prestbury conservation area, with 7 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 1,672 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 3BH
Application type
Conservation Area Notification
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Prestbury

Planning application dates

Date validated
15 October 2026
Target decision date
26 November 2026
Permission expires
15 October 2028

Applicant and agent

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

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-15244901
Comments
0
Documents
5
Constraints
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: The Prestbury Conservation Area
  • Listed building: Grade II: Pilgrim CottageOn or next to this site
  • Green belt: Cheltenham
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.

Also checked, none recorded (20)

flood storage areas, Article 4 directions, 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.

Planning history at this site

1 other application at this property, newest first.

  1. 2026
    25 Mar

    Proposed Garden Room to replace existing

    ApprovedApplication26/00492/FUL

Source: Cheltenham

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