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8 School Hill Sproxton Leicestershire LE14 4RB

25/01321/TCATrees Cons Area Section 211 noticesApproved

Approved on 4 February 2026

Council decision: Consent to work on TreesDelegated (officer decision)

Site boundary (council red line)

Proposal

Oak Tree (T1) - Reduction of 1x reaching branch and 10% thinning of small internal canopy branches - Re-balancing of Crown Ash Tree (T2) - Removal to Ground Level - Aid in Rebalancing the Crown of the Oak Tree

Received
28 December 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
1
Ward
Wymondham
  1. Received28 Dec
  2. Validated29 Dec
  3. Consult.3 Feb
  4. Target9 Feb
  5. Decided4 Feb

Decided in 37 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at 8 School Hill Sproxton Leicestershire LE14 4RB. Melton has handled 397 applications of this type. This one was decided in 38 days, 3 weeks quicker than Melton's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 13 applications across Wymondham. We hold 1,372 applications in total for the LE14 postcode area.

100% of trees applications at Melton Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
LE14 4RB
Application type
Trees Cons Area Section 211 notices
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Sproxton

Planning application dates

Date validated
29 December 2025
Consultation expiry
3 February 2026
Consultation start
13 January 2026
Consultation end
3 February 2026
Last date for comments
3 February 2026
Target decision date
9 February 2026
Permission expires
4 February 2031

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14591450
Documents
8

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Sproxton
  • 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 (21)

flood storage 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: Melton

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