The Garden House Lower Street Chewton Mendip Wells Somerset BA3 4GP
Approved on 27 October 2025
Council decision: TCA ApprovalDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
T1 - Pine - Cut back to boundary. T2 (Group) - Ash x2, Birch x1, Cherry x1 - Fell. T3 - Willow - Cut back from building by 2.4m. T4 - Pine & spruce - Fell & replace with Field maple x 3.
- Received
- 23 September 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Mendip
- Ward
- Mendip Hills Division
- Agent
- Maythorne Trees & Woodlands Ltd
- ReceivedReceived23 Sep
- ValidatedValidated23 Sep
- Consult.Consultation
- TargetTarget Date4 Nov
- DecidedDecided27 Oct
Decided in 34 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is a tree application at The Garden House Lower Street Chewton Mendip Wells Somerset BA3 4GP. Mendip has handled 777 applications of this type. This one was decided in 34 days, 2 weeks quicker than Mendip's typical decision time. The site is in the Chewton Mendip conservation area, with 4 listed buildings nearby. 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).
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Application details
- Postcode
- BA3 4GP
- Application type
- Works/Felling Trees in a CA
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Chewton Mendip Parish Council
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 23 September 2025
- Target decision date
- 4 November 2025
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Maythorne Trees & Woodlands Ltd
- Agent address
- Maythorne Trees & Woodlands Ltd 1 East Street Lane West Pennard Street Glastonbury Somerset BA6 8NJ
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 42 days
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)Part of the site
- Conservation area: Chewton Mendip
- National Landscape (AONB): Mendip Hills
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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