Drake House Manor Place High Street Oakhill Shepton Mallet Somerset BA3 5BY
Approved on 17 April 2026
Council decision: TCA Approval (No Objection)Delegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Sycamore (T1, T2 & T3) - Reduce overall crown by approx 2m. Red Oak (T4, T5 & T6) - Reduce overall crown by approx 2m. Sycamore (T7) - Reduce overall crown by approx 2m. Spruce (T11) - Remove x4 lower branches growing towards property & thin canopy by approx 30%. Spruce (T12 & T13) - Thin canopy by approx 30%.
- Received
- 17 February 2026
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Mendip
- Ward
- Mendip Hills Division
- Agent
- RFP Tree and Landscape Services Ltd
- ReceivedReceived17 Feb
- ValidatedValidated17 Feb
- Consult.Consultation
- TargetTarget Date31 Mar
- DecidedDecided17 Apr
Decided in 59 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is a tree application at Drake House Manor Place High Street Oakhill Shepton Mallet Somerset BA3 5BY. Mendip has handled 777 applications of this type. This one was decided in 59 days, 10 days longer than Mendip's typical decision time. The site is in the Oakhill conservation area, with 2 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 108 applications across Mendip Hills Division. We hold 1,600 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 5BY
- Application type
- Works/Felling Trees in a CA
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Ashwick Parish Council
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 17 February 2026
- Consultation expiry
- 21 March 2026
- Target decision date
- 31 March 2026
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- RFP Tree and Landscape Services Ltd
- Agent address
- RFP Tree And Landscape Services Ltd The Arb Centre Orchard Park Farm Hornblotton BA4 6SF
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 42 days
Publicity
- Site notice end
- 21 March 2026
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Conservation area: Oakhill
- 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.
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