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51 Main Street Empingham Rutland LE15 8PR

2025/1408/CATWorks to a tree in a Conservation AreaApproved

Approved on 4 December 2025

Council decision: ApproveDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

(A) 1 No. Cherry Tree - Cut back branches which are overhanging neighbour's garden by approx 1 metre. Overall crown reduction of 1 metre to achieve a balanced shape. Cut back areas of die back. (C) 1 no. Silver Birch - Reduce the straggling branches by up to 1.5 metres to improve the shape overall and prevent the branches dragging on the roof of the shed and the garage. (D) Fell 1 no. small Conifer Tree.

Received
31 October 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Normanton Ward
  1. Received31 Oct
  2. Validated3 Nov
  3. Consult.26 Nov
  4. Target15 Dec
  5. Decided4 Dec

Decided in 31 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a tree application at 51 Main Street Empingham Rutland LE15 8PR. Rutland has handled 1,004 applications of this type. This one was decided in 34 days, 2 weeks quicker than Rutland's typical decision time. The site is in the Empingham conservation area, with 5 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 117 applications across Normanton Ward. We hold 3,196 applications in total for the LE15 postcode area.

97% of trees applications at Rutland County Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 7 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
LE15 8PR
Application type
Works to a tree in a Conservation Area
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Empingham Parish Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
3 November 2025
Consultation expiry
26 November 2025
Consultation start
5 November 2025
Consultation end
26 November 2025
Last date for comments
26 November 2025
Target decision date
15 December 2025
Permission expires
4 December 2027

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14454212
Documents
5

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Empingham
  • Listed building: Grade II: Hollies YeomansOn or next to this site · +1 more
  • 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 (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

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© 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: Rutland

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