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Walnut Farm, Moor Green, Axbridge, Somerset, BS26 2BD

02/25/00013Works to Trees in Conservation AreaApproved

Approved on 12 July 2025

Council decision: Granted PermissionDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Reduce crown of 1No. Juglans regia (Common walnut) (T1) by approx. 2m back to suitable lateral limbs near to previous pruning points and remove 2No. limbs extending over driveway to raise canopy to 3m. Light prune 1No. Prunus sp. (Cherry) (T2) removing dead, dying or crossing limbs, reduce canopy by approx 0.5m back to previous pruning points and thin crown.

Submitted
9 June 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Council
Sedgemoor
  1. Received9 Jun
  2. Validated9 Jun
  3. Consult.
  4. Target12 Jul
  5. Decided12 Jul

Decided in 33 days (council typically 35)

About this application

This is a tree application at Walnut Farm, Moor Green, Axbridge, Somerset, BS26 2BD. Sedgemoor has handled 297 applications of this type. This one was decided in 33 days. The site is in the Axbridge conservation area. There has been 1 other application at this address. We hold 814 applications in total for the BS26 postcode area.

100% of trees applications at Sedgemoor were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 5 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
BS26 2BD
Application type
Works to Trees in Conservation Area
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Axbridge

Planning application dates

Date validated
9 June 2025
Consultation start
10 June 2025
Target decision date
12 July 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Rosemary House Westfield Lane Draycott Cheddar BS27 3TP

Planning decision

Statutory period
33 days

Additional information

Documents
4

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • Conservation area: Axbridge
  • 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.

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: Sedgemoor

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