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The Green, Westcott Street, Westcott

MO/2025/02103Conservation Area TreesApproved

Approved on 22 September 2025

Delegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

1 No. Cypress right hand side rear garden - Reduce height by 1.5 - 2 metres 8 x 4 metres down to 6 x 4 metres and 1 No. Pittosporum rear boundary - Crown reduction 5 x 4 metres down to 3 x 2 metres. Reduce the overall size by removing the doglegged stem growing towards and over the lawn to the 2" diameter.

Submitted
13 August 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
  1. Received13 Aug
  2. Validated
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided22 Sep

Decided in 40 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a planning application at THE GREEN, WESTCOTT STREET, WESTCOTT. Mole Valley has handled 127 applications of this type. This one was decided in 40 days, 2 weeks quicker than Mole Valley's typical decision time. The site is in the Westcott conservation area, with 4 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 173 applications across Mickleham, Westcott & Okewood. We hold 475 applications in total for the RH4 postcode area.

100% of conservation area trees applications at Mole Valley District Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
RH4 3NH
Application type
Conservation Area Trees

Applicant and agent

Applicant
Private applicant

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: WestcottPart of the site
  • Listed building: Grade II: Robin CottageOn or next to this site
  • National Landscape (AONB): Surrey 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 (19)

flood storage 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, 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: Mole Valley

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