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Land at Pistles Pond Beacon Hill & Land In Front Of Snowdrop Cottage & The Chestnuts Elm Road Penn Buckinghamshire

PL/25/0107/KAWorks to trees in CARefused

Refused on 25 February 2025

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

Proposal

T1 ash - crown reduce by 20%, coppice multi-stemmed sycamore on the other side of the footpath to gain access; T2 ash - remove; T4 ash - crown raise over pavement to ensure clearance; and T5 chestnut - reduce, pollard back to previous cuts about 20%. (Conservation Area: Penn and Tylers Green)

Received
14 January 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Council
Chiltern South Bucks
Ward
Penn Wood & Old Amersham
  1. Received14 Jan
  2. Validated14 Jan
  3. Consult.19 Feb
  4. Target25 Feb
  5. Decided25 Feb

Decided in 42 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at Land at Pistles Pond Beacon Hill & Land In Front Of Snowdrop Cottage & The Chestnuts Elm Road Penn Buckinghamshire. Chiltern South Bucks has handled 1,703 applications of this type. This one was decided in 42 days, 2 weeks quicker than Chiltern South Bucks's typical decision time. The site is in the Penn and Tylers Green conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There are no previous applications recorded 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
Penn

Planning application dates

Date validated
14 January 2025
Consultation expiry
19 February 2025
Consultation start
29 January 2025
Consultation end
19 February 2025
Last date for comments
19 February 2025
Target decision date
25 February 2025

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

Documents
2

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: Penn and Tylers Green
  • Article 4 direction: Whole District excluding the Town of Chesham - Poultry production.
  • Green belt: Buckinghamshire
  • National Landscape (AONB): Chilterns
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (20)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, tree preservation orders, 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, 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.

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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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