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Land at Elm Close Amersham Buckinghamshire

PL/22/3990/KAWorks to trees in CARefused

Refused on 21 December 2022

Council decision: TPO shall not be madeDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Pollarding of 10 Norway maples to previous points, cut sides and top of laurel hedges around entrance, and central green, including arches, cut various mixed hedges either side of the road, cut side of yew over road outside Nos 10/11 to keep road clear for higher vehicles, crown raise lime canopy over road to clear for bin lorries, crown raise sycamore and lime canopies over green to give clearance for people, remove few select lower limbs from Prunus trees (Nos 18/19 and Nos 14/15) to allow clearance for delivery vehicles, cut sides of large Portuguese laurel and yew in verge past No 3 (reaching up to full height and shaping), cut all hedges around compost bin area, including shaping larger holly trees (Elm Close Conservation Area)

Received
17 November 2022
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Council
Chiltern South Bucks
Ward
Amersham and Chesham Bois
  1. Received17 Nov
  2. Validated17 Nov
  3. Consult.8 Dec
  4. Target29 Dec
  5. Decided21 Dec

Decided in 34 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at Land at Elm Close Amersham Buckinghamshire. Chiltern South Bucks has handled 1,703 applications of this type. This one was decided in 34 days, 3 weeks quicker than Chiltern South Bucks's typical decision time. The site is in the Elm Close conservation area. There has been 1 other application at this address.

58% of trees applications at Chiltern South Bucks were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Application type
Works to trees in CA
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Amersham

Planning application dates

Date validated
17 November 2022
Consultation expiry
8 December 2022
Consultation start
17 November 2022
Consultation end
8 December 2022
Last date for comments
8 December 2022
Target decision date
29 December 2022

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

Documents
4

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: Elm Close
  • Article 4 direction: Whole District excluding the Town of Chesham - Poultry production.
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (22)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, tree preservation orders, 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: Chiltern South Bucks

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