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Balliol College Broad Street Oxford Oxfordshire OX1 3BJ

25/02838/CATWorks to Trees in Conservation AreaApproved

Approved on 24 November 2025

Council decision: Raise No ObjectionDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Works to various trees as specified by Mr. Robert Douglas Brown in the Central Conservation area. 302 Morus sp. End weight reduction 20% 303 Catalpa sp. Remove major deadwood 285 Gleditsia sp. Remove major deadwood 308 Morus sp. Reduce crown 20% G3 Photinia sp. Reduce crown 20% 282 Cornus mas Remove epicormic growth and reduce low level sections back into canopy profile 289 Robinia sp. Remove major deadwood and clean out crown 292 Prunus sp. Install non-invasive cable brace 297 Pyrus sp. Formative prune 298 Liriodendron sp. Remove major deadwood 307 Morus sp. Formative prune 284 Paulownia sp. Reduce crown 15%

Received
27 October 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Carfax And Jericho Ward
  1. Received27 Oct
  2. Validated27 Oct
  3. Consult.21 Nov
  4. Target7 Dec
  5. Decided24 Nov

Decided in 28 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at Balliol College Broad Street Oxford Oxfordshire OX1 3BJ. Oxford has handled 1,019 applications of this type. This one was decided in 28 days, 4 weeks quicker than Oxford's typical decision time. The site is in the Central (City and University) conservation area, with 20 listed buildings nearby. There have been 3 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 62 applications across Carfax And Jericho Ward. We hold 1,977 applications in total for the OX1 postcode area.

99% of trees applications at Oxford City Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
OX1 3BJ
Application type
Works to Trees in Conservation Area
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
27 October 2025
Consultation expiry
21 November 2025
Consultation start
31 October 2025
Consultation end
21 November 2025
Last date for comments
21 November 2025
Target decision date
7 December 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Balliol College Broad Street Oxford OX1 3BJ

Planning decision

Statutory period
41 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14441020
Documents
8
Constraints
8

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

Also checked, none recorded (20)

flood storage areas, tree preservation orders, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, 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.

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