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The Old School House Post Office Lane Newton Harcourt Leicestershire LE8 9FN

26/00082/TPOTree Preservation Order ApplicationApproved

Approved on 20 February 2026

Council decision: ApproveDelegated (officer decision)

Site boundary (council red line)

Proposal

Works to trees (HDC TPO 85) (T1 Oak- Reduce canopy by 2.5- 3 meters keeping the canopy balanced. The tree has been previously cut and encroaching the property, a reduction wanted to cut back away from property and to keep the tree well maintained and balanced)

Received
20 January 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Glen
  1. Received20 Jan
  2. Validated20 Jan
  3. Consult.19 Feb
  4. Target17 Mar
  5. Decided20 Feb

Decided in 31 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at The Old School House Post Office Lane Newton Harcourt Leicestershire LE8 9FN. Harborough has handled 1,511 applications of this type. This one was decided in 31 days, 4 weeks quicker than Harborough's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 20 applications across Glen. We hold 1,735 applications in total for the LE8 postcode area.

96% of trees applications at Harborough District Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
LE8 9FN
Application type
Tree Preservation Order Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Wistow And Newton Harcourt

Planning application dates

Date validated
20 January 2026
Consultation expiry
19 February 2026
Consultation end
19 February 2026
Target decision date
17 March 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent
Rogers & Cork Tree Care
Agent address
Rogers & Cork Tree Care 15 Broughtons Field Leicester LE18 3LJ

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14635389
Documents
6

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions and tree preservation orders. Ask the council if these matter.

Also checked, none recorded (22)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, 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.

Source: Harborough

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