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St Peters Church Little Rissington Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL54 2ND

24/01804/TCONRWorks to trees in conservation areasApproved

Approved on 11 July 2024

Council decision: No objectionDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

T1 - Yew - Trim (using hedge trimmers so no major branches to be removed) and shape the tree to reshape it and make it as uniform as possible all round, and tidy up the base as it is spreading out into the graveyard covering nearby gravesT2 - Yew - Reduce in height by 1.5m to make it reachable for regular trimming from the ground (with extendable trimmers), Trim and shape the outside to keep it cylindricalT3 - Crown lift to 2.5m of all trees along the side of the car park, Remove 3 x small alder trees in the hedge line, one next to oak & sycamoreT4 - American 'live' oak appears to have prolific 'Leaf Rust' fugal infection, shape and reduce to make uniform, and lift lower bows from the floor.

Received
21 June 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
The Rissingtons
  1. Received21 Jun
  2. Validated21 Jun
  3. Consult.2 Jul
  4. Target
  5. Decided11 Jul

Decided in 20 days (council typically 42)

About this application

This is a tree application at St Peters Church Little Rissington Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL54 2ND. Cotswold has handled 2,543 applications of this type. This one was decided in 20 days, 3 weeks quicker than Cotswold's typical decision time. The site is in the Little Rissington conservation area, with 16 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 45 applications across The Rissingtons. We hold 3,306 applications in total for the GL54 postcode area.

100% of trees applications at Cotswold District Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 6 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
GL54 2ND
Application type
Works to trees in conservation areas
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Little Rissington

Planning application dates

Date validated
21 June 2024
Consultation expiry
2 July 2024
Consultation end
2 July 2024
Last date for comments
2 July 2024

Applicant and agent

Agent
Paul Craddock
Agent address
132 Slad Road Stroud GL51RE

Additional information

Documents
10
Constraints
4

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

Also checked, none recorded (21)

flood storage areas, Article 4 directions, 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, 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.

Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Cotswold

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