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Vacton House 29 High Street Leintwardine Craven Arms Herefordshire SY7 0LF

P260151/KWorks to Trees in a Conservation AreaApproved

Approved on 23 February 2026

Council decision: Trees in Cons Area Works Can Proceed

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Line of leylandii conifers - growing up on the cemetery side and obscuring light. Works - to have them felled. Large Scots pine - crownlifting to remove lower branches extending above garden and to the south. To prevent debris falling onto shed roof and to allow more light.

Received
19 January 2026
Ward
Mortimer
  1. Received19 Jan
  2. Validated19 Jan
  3. Consult.11 Feb
  4. Target2 Mar
  5. Decided23 Feb

Decided in 35 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a planning application at Vacton House 29 High Street Leintwardine Craven Arms Herefordshire SY7 0LF. Herefordshire has handled 1,765 applications of this type. This one was decided in 35 days, 3 weeks quicker than Herefordshire's typical decision time. The site is in the Leintwardine conservation area, with 3 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 97 applications across Mortimer. We hold 2,093 applications in total for the SY7 postcode area.

99% of works to trees in a conservation area applications at Herefordshire Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
SY7 0LF
Application type
Works to Trees in a Conservation Area
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Leintwardine

Planning application dates

Date validated
19 January 2026
Consultation expiry
11 February 2026
Consultation start
21 January 2026
Consultation end
11 February 2026
Last date for comments
11 February 2026
Target decision date
2 March 2026

Applicant and agent

Applicant
Private applicant

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Publicity

Last advertised
21 January 2026

Additional information

Documents
8

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

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 (21)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, 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: Herefordshire

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