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The Mere, Upton Park, Slough, SL1 2DD

TPO/2025/12Tree Application for WorksApproved

Approved on 2 February 2026

Council decision: Approved with Conditions; InformativesDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

G785 - Ulmus procera (Elm) - Fell to ground level as it is dead, T790 - Fraxinus excelsior (Ash) - Fell to ground level as it is dead, T799 - Acer pseudoplatanus (Sycamore) - Fell to ground level as is 80% dead, T826 - Catalpa bignonioides (Indian Bean Tree) - Crown reduce by 2 meters (back to previous pruning points) and rebalance crown. This is to stop the tree overwhelming an area close to buildings, as previously done, G701 N & S - Avenue of Carpinus betulus (Hornbeam trees) - Cut back avenue of Hornbeam trees situated either side of the entrance driveway, to give statutory clearance over road. Raise crowns to 2 m. Make each tree into individual forms as they are starting to merge together, reducing lateral branches by up to 0.75m.

Received
2 December 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Upton
  1. Received2 Dec
  2. Validated2 Dec
  3. Consult.
  4. Target27 Jan
  5. Decided2 Feb

Decided in 62 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at The Mere, Upton Park, Slough, SL1 2DD. Slough has handled 86 applications of this type. This one was decided in 62 days, 6 days longer than Slough's typical decision time. The site is in the Upton Park and Upton Village conservation area. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 68 applications across Upton. We hold 1,885 applications in total for the SL1 postcode area.

95% of trees applications at Slough Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
SL1 2DD
Application type
Tree Application for Works
Scale / size
Medium
District
East

Planning application dates

Date validated
2 December 2025
Target decision date
27 January 2026
Application expires
23 February 2026

Planning decision

Statutory period
83 days

Publicity

First advertised
2 December 2025
Site notice start
2 December 2025

Additional information

UPRN
100081262401
Documents
2

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Upton Park and Upton Village
  • Green belt: SloughPart of the site
  • Registered park and garden: Herschel Park (Formerly Upton Park)Next to the site
  • Local nature reserve: Herschel ParkPart of the site
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions. Ask the council if these matter.

Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.

Also checked, none recorded (18)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, 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, 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.

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