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4 Wykham Gardens Banbury OX16 9LF

23/02977/TPOWorks To Tree Preservation OrderApproved

Approved on 7 January 2024

Council decision: PermittedDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

T1 London Plane – Reduce the height by up to 3m, reducing the lateral branching extended to the property by 2 - 3m using crotch drop method removing elongated secondary branching. Reduce the remaining side mid/lower overall crown profile extending to neighbouring property by up to 3m, to include crown lifting to provide a 5-6m ground clearance by removing/reducing undulating secondary branching. All pruning to be in line with BS3998 retaining maximum twig/bud bearing materials, retaining overall crown symmetry. T2 Beech - Reduce the height by up to 2m, reducing the side mid/lower overall crown profile by up to 2 -3m, with allowance of removing/reducing evident squirrel damaged branching where necessary, to include crown lifting to provide a 5-6m ground clearance by removing/reducing undulating secondary branching. All pruning to be in line with BS3998 retaining maximum twig/bud bearing materials, retaining overall crown symmetry.

Received
24 October 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Banbury Calthorpe And Easington
  1. Received24 Oct
  2. Validated14 Nov
  3. Consult.
  4. Target9 Jan
  5. Decided7 Jan

Decided in 54 days (council typically 63)

About this application

This is a tree application at 4 Wykham Gardens Banbury OX16 9LF. Cherwell has handled 1,709 applications of this type. This one was decided in 75 days, 12 days longer than Cherwell's typical decision time. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 71 applications across Banbury Calthorpe And Easington. We hold 1,041 applications in total for the OX16 postcode area.

96% of trees applications at Cherwell District Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 9 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
OX16 9LF
Application type
Works To Tree Preservation Order
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Banbury

Planning application dates

Date validated
14 November 2023
Target decision date
9 January 2024

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
12

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions and tree preservation orders. Ask the council if these matter.

Also checked, none recorded (22)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, 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: Cherwell

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