Chewton Gallery Field Lane Chewton Mendip Wells Somerset BA3 4PD

2023/0720/TCAWorks/Felling Trees in a CAApproved

Approved on 23 May 2023

Council decision: TCA ApprovalDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Tree 1, 3 & 5 - Ash - Fell. Tree 2 - Pine - Fell. Tree 4 - Sycamore - Fell.

Received: 25 April 2023
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Council: Mendip
Ward: Mendip Hills Division

ReceivedReceived25 Apr
ValidatedValidated25 Apr
Consult.Consultation
TargetTarget Date6 Jun
DecidedDecided23 May

Decided in 28 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a tree application at Chewton Gallery Field Lane Chewton Mendip Wells Somerset BA3 4PD. Mendip has handled 777 applications of this type. This one was decided in 28 days, 3 weeks quicker than Mendip's typical decision time. The site is in the Chewton Mendip conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 108 applications across Mendip Hills Division. We hold 1,598 applications in total for the BA3 postcode area.

96% of trees applications at Mendip were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 7 weeks (median).

Based on decided applications received in the last 3 years.See what's approved near your address

Application details

Postcode: BA3 4PD
Application type: Works/Felling Trees in a CA
Scale / size: Small
Parish: Chewton Mendip Parish Council

Planning application dates

Date validated: 25 April 2023
Target decision date: 6 June 2023

Applicant and agent

Agent address: The Sycamores 27 High Street Chew Magna Bristol BS40 8PR

Planning decision

Statutory period: 42 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID: PP-12112538
Comments: 0
Documents: 4
Constraints: 14

Site constraints

Checking the site

2/3

Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

Conservation area: Chewton Mendip
National Landscape (AONB): Mendip Hills
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 (20)

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, 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.

Source: Mendip

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