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St Michaels Abbey 280 Farnborough Road Farnborough Hampshire GU14 7NQ

26/00397/CATPPWorks to tree(s) in Conservation Area PPApproved

Approved on 8 September 2026

Council decision: No ObjectionDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Remove one Conifer, tree 1 on submitted plan. Tree 2 Conifer (leaning towards 65 Abbey Way) reduce in height by no more than 5 metres. Both trees are within the St Michael's Abbey Conservation Area

Received
10 July 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Empress
Agent
1st Call Trees Ltd.
  1. Received10 Jul
  2. Validated10 Jul
  3. Consult.31 Jul
  4. Target4 Sep
  5. Decided8 Sep

Decided in 60 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a tree application at St Michaels Abbey 280 Farnborough Road Farnborough Hampshire GU14 7NQ. Rushmoor has handled 262 applications of this type. This one was decided in 60 days, 11 days longer than Rushmoor's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area, with 2 listed buildings nearby. There have been 5 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 70 applications across Empress. We hold 493 applications in total for the GU14 postcode area.

98% of trees applications at Rushmoor Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 7 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
GU14 7NQ
Application type
Works to tree(s) in Conservation Area PP
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Not Available

Planning application dates

Date validated
10 July 2026
Consultation expiry
31 July 2026
Consultation start
10 July 2026
Consultation end
31 July 2026
Last date for comments
31 July 2026
Target decision date
4 September 2026

Applicant and agent

Applicant
Private applicant
Agent
1st Call Trees Ltd.
Agent address
1st Call Trees Ltd. Hazelbank Nursery Tilford Street Tilford Farnham GU10 2AA GB

Planning decision

Case officer
Ian May
Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-15074156
Comments
0
Documents
5
Constraints
3

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

Not published by this council, so not checked: conservation areas, Article 4 directions and tree preservation orders. Ask the council if these matter.

Also checked, none recorded (20)

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, 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.

Planning history at this site

5 other applications at this property, newest first.

  1. 2026
    2 Jun

    Remove one Beech tree , tree 3 on submitted plan (T6 of TPO 192V)

    ApprovedApplication26/00299/TPOPP
  2. 2026
    1 Jun

    Remove Tree 1 Twin-Stemmed Conifer (Dead) Tree 2 Conifer (Dead) as per submitted plan. The trees are within…

    ApprovedWorks to tree(s) in Conservation Area PP26/00292/CATPP
  3. 2026
    22 Apr

    Area A as per submitted plan, remove all the smaller diameter trees (<400mm DBH) within 12 metres of the…

    ApprovedWorks to tree(s) in Conservation Area PP26/00205/CATPP
  4. 2026
    9 Feb

    Tree 1 one Oak as per submitted plan, overall crown reduction of no more than 3 meters to secondary growth…

    ApprovedWorks to tree(s) in Conservation Area PP26/00057/CATPP
  5. 2023
    7 Jul

    Remedial work to three Conifer Trees at St. Michaels Abbey, T1, T2 and T3 as per submitted plan, reduce…

    ApprovedWorks to tree(s) in Conservation Area PP23/00520/CATPP

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