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Friends Meeting House Whielden Street Amersham Buckinghamshire HP7 0JB

PL/24/2411/TPWorks to trees covered by TPOApproved

Approved on 20 September 2024

Council decision: Conditional permissionDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Horse chestnut - cut back large branch overhanging 63 Whielden Street (TPO/1998/018)

Received
2 August 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Council
Chiltern South Bucks
Ward
Penn Wood & Old Amersham
  1. Received2 Aug
  2. Validated2 Aug
  3. Consult.26 Aug
  4. Target27 Sep
  5. Decided20 Sep

Decided in 49 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at Friends Meeting House Whielden Street Amersham Buckinghamshire HP7 0JB. Chiltern South Bucks has handled 1,703 applications of this type. This one was decided in 49 days, 7 days quicker than Chiltern South Bucks's typical decision time. The site is in 7 listed buildings nearby. There have been 3 other applications at this address. We hold 2,558 applications in total for the HP7 postcode area.

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

Postcode
HP7 0JB
Application type
Works to trees covered by TPO
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Amersham

Planning application dates

Date validated
2 August 2024
Consultation expiry
26 August 2024
Consultation start
5 August 2024
Consultation end
26 August 2024
Last date for comments
26 August 2024
Target decision date
27 September 2024

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
5

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Listed building: Grade II*: Friends' Meeting House and Whielden CottageOn this site · +2 more
  • Article 4 direction: Whole District excluding the Town of Chesham - Poultry production.
  • Tree Preservation Order: TPO/1998/018Protected tree on or next to this site · +1 more
  • Green belt: BuckinghamshireNext to the site
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (20)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, 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

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© 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

10 other applications at this property, newest first.

  1. 2026
    19 Mar

    Tip-reduce the noted end-loaded lateral branch on the south side by 1.5m x 1 Horse Chestnut (T001), 3m all…

    PendingWorks to trees covered by TPOPL/26/02246/TP
  2. 2022
    9 Nov

    T1 and T2 hornbeam - prune branches overhanging Gilbert Scott Court (CDC TPO 33 of 1987)

    ApprovedWorks to trees covered by TPOPL/22/3892/TP
  3. 2020
    10 Dec

    T1 - Beech - Crown lifting and Crown reduction (TPO/1987/033

    ApprovedWorks to trees covered by TPOPL/20/4226/TP
  4. 2014
    1 Dec

    Replacement shed

    ApprovedFull ApplicationCH/2014/2149/FA
  5. 2013
    13 Nov

    Crown lifting of a horse chestnut tree and pruning of two lower branches - tree protected by a Tree…

    ApprovedWorks to trees covered by TPOCH/2013/1895/TP
  6. 2013
    20 Jun

    Pruning of branches of two hornbeams overhanging Gilbert Scott Court, both trees protected by a Tree…

    ApprovedWorks to trees covered by TPOCH/2013/1056/TP

Source: Chiltern South Bucks

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