The Blandford School Milldown Road Blandford Forum Dorset DT11 7SQ
Approved on 4 January 2023
Council decision: Tree Works - CA - No ObjectionDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
T2 - Sycamore - Fell due to poor structure with a high to medium risk of failure.
- Submitted
- 29 November 2022
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Dorset Council
- Ward
- Blandford Ward
- ReceivedSubmitted29 Nov
- ValidatedValidated29 Nov
- Consult.Consultation
- TargetTarget Date
- DecidedDecided4 Jan
Decided in 36 days (council typically 42)
About this application
This is a tree application at The Blandford School Milldown Road Blandford Forum Dorset DT11 7SQ. Dorset has handled 5,931 applications of this type. This one was decided in 36 days, 6 days quicker than Dorset's typical decision time. The site is in the Blandford St Mary and Bryanston conservation area. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 88 applications across Blandford Ward. We hold 2,461 applications in total for the DT11 postcode area.
95% of trees applications at Dorset Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 6 weeks (median).
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Application details
- Postcode
- DT11 7SQ
- Application type
- Tree Works- Conservation Area
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Blandford Forum
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 29 November 2022
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- The Old Pump House Oborne Road Sherborne DT9 4RX
Additional information
- Documents
- 5
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- Conservation area: Blandford St Mary and Bryanston Conservation Area
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Not published by this council, so not checked: tree preservation orders. Ask the council if these matter.
Also checked, none recorded (22)
flood storage areas, listed buildings, Article 4 directions, 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.
Planning history at this site
2 other applications at this property, newest first.
- 20246 Feb
T1 - Silver Birch - Crown lift secondary and tertiary branches to 5.2m in height to allow clearance for the…
ApprovedTree Works- Conservation AreaP/TRC/2024/00647 - 20225 Aug
T1 - Weeping beech - Crown raise to 5m to allow the buses to pass underneath without damaging the tree…
ApprovedTree Works- Conservation AreaP/TRC/2022/04862
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