Sandford Holiday Park Organford Road Holton Heath BH16 6JZ

P/TRT/2025/05140Tree Works- TPOApproved

Approved on 15 October 2025

Council decision: Tree Works - TPO - ConsentDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Crown lift all trees across the site to provide a clearance of up to 5.2m over the public highway and internal access roads and 2.3m over the public footpath and internal access paths. All crown lifting to involve the pruning of tertiary and secondary branches and epicormic growth only. Prune all trees surrounding caravans within the site to provide a clearance of up to 1.5m around the caravans by the pruning of tertiary and secondary branches and epicormic growth only. The work is to be repeated up to 4 times a year for a period of 3 years from October 2025 to October 2028 (amended proposal/description of works).

Submitted: 1 September 2025
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Council: Dorset Council
Ward: Wareham Ward

ReceivedSubmitted1 Sep
ValidatedValidated1 Sep
Consult.Consultation
TargetTarget Date
DecidedDecided15 Oct

Decided in 44 days (council typically 42)

About this application

This is a tree application at Sandford Holiday Park Organford Road Holton Heath BH16 6JZ. Dorset has handled 5,931 applications of this type. This one was decided in 44 days. There have been 5 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 112 applications across Wareham Ward. We hold 224 applications in total for the BH16 postcode area.

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Application details

Postcode: BH16 6JZ
Application type: Tree Works- TPO
Scale / size: Small
Parish: Wareham St. Martin

Planning application dates

Date validated: 1 September 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address: Unit 1 Charminster Farm Industrial Wanchard Lane CHARMINSTER DT2 9RP

Additional information

Documents: 4

Site constraints

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Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

Green belt: Dorset
Nutrient neutrality catchment: Poole Harbour SPA/RamsarApplies to new homes and overnight accommodation
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, conservation areas, listed buildings, Article 4 directions, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, Heritage at Risk entries, 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.

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© 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.

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