The Mildown Blandford
Approved on 5 February 2026
Council decision: Tree Works - CA - AcceptableDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
Horse Chestnut - Reduce height to 12m from ground and lateral spread by 4-5m from the tips inwards. Reduce dead stem to 1m. This 211 notification has been submitted internally for transparency only; a Section 211 notice is not formally required for tree works carried out by, or on behalf of, the local authority.
- Submitted
- 20 January 2026
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Dorset Council
- Ward
- Blandford Ward
- ReceivedSubmitted20 Jan
- ValidatedValidated20 Jan
- Consult.Consultation
- TargetTarget Date
- DecidedDecided5 Feb
Decided in 16 days (council typically 42)
About this application
This is a tree application at The Mildown Blandford. Dorset has handled 5,931 applications of this type. This one was decided in 16 days, 4 weeks quicker than Dorset's typical decision time. The site is in the Blandford St Mary and Bryanston conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 88 applications across Blandford Ward.
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
- Application type
- Tree Works- Conservation Area
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Blandford Forum
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 20 January 2026
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- Senior Ranger (North and Purbeck) Place Services
Additional information
- Documents
- 3
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- Conservation area: Blandford St Mary and Bryanston Conservation Area
- National Landscape (AONB): Cranborne Chase & West Wiltshire Downs
- 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 (21)
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, 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.
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