Skip to content

The Rectory Long Newnton Tetbury Gloucestershire GL8 8RR

26/00539/TCONRWorks to trees in conservation areasApproved

Approved on 18 March 2026

Council decision: No objectionDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
Boundary © HM Land Registry, © Ordnance Survey · details

This information is subject to Crown copyright and database rights 2026 and is reproduced with the permission of HM Land Registry. The polygons (including the associated geometry, namely x, y co-ordinates) are subject to Crown copyright and database rights 2026 Ordnance Survey AC0000851063. Conditions of use.

Proposal

6 x silver birch (G1): fell. Beech (T1): fell. Sycamore(multistemmed) (T2): fell. Pine (T3): fell. Ash (T4): fell. 5 x sycamore (G2): fell. 5 x whitebeam (G3) : fell. Avenue of 14 x Norway maple (G4): reduce height to 8m above ground level and lateral spread to 3m from the trunks. Sycamore (T5): remove lower branches to provide 5.2m clearance above the road. Oak (T6): directional prune to improve the tree's balance. Lime (T7): remove the "ball" of reaction growth from the top of the tree. This tree work has already been offset by the planting of over 50 trees and 2,000 hedging saplings on this property.

Received
18 February 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Tetbury East & Rural
  1. Received18 Feb
  2. Validated18 Feb
  3. Consult.5 Mar
  4. Target
  5. Decided18 Mar

Decided in 28 days (council typically 42)

About this application

This is a tree application at The Rectory Long Newnton Tetbury Gloucestershire GL8 8RR. Cotswold has handled 2,543 applications of this type. This one was decided in 28 days, 2 weeks quicker than Cotswold's typical decision time. The site is in the Long Newnton conservation area, with 3 listed buildings nearby. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 37 applications across Tetbury East & Rural. We hold 783 applications in total for the GL8 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).

Based on decided applications received in the last 3 years.See what's approved near your address

Application details

Postcode
GL8 8RR
Application type
Works to trees in conservation areas
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Long Newnton

Planning application dates

Date validated
18 February 2026
Consultation expiry
5 March 2026
Consultation end
5 March 2026
Last date for comments
5 March 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent
Mr Piers Hansen
Agent address
35 High St Avening Tetbury GL8 8NF

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14716690
Documents
17
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

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: Cotswold

Track this application

Get email alerts when there is a planning decision or status change.

Get email alerts near GL8

New planning applications delivered to your inbox daily.

Around this site

Discuss this application on r/PlanningPermissionUK

For applicants and trades

What's been approved on your street?

See what the council approved and refused near this address for the project you have in mind, and the rules that apply here.

Get The Signal Report