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Water Lane, Brookstones, Sydenham, OX39 4LY

P26/S0495/TCAWorks to trees in CAApproved

Approved on 19 February 2026

Council decision: No obj CA works

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

Proposal

The tree is a silver birch tree. Its location is shown in the plan attached. It is growing approximately 1m away from an overhead live electricity line which supplies mains electricity to my house (see photo). Every year the electricity company has to cut away all the growth on the western side of the tree, where it threatens to touch the power line. As a result, the tree has grown in a distorted way, with its canopy on one side only and with the weight of that canopy forcing the tree to lean to the east. I wish to remove the tree and plant a new silver birch which will be multi-stemmed (hence not growing as tall), approximately 2 meters to the east of where the current one stands. "Remove" means cut down and remove the stump by excavation.

Received
17 February 2026
  1. Received17 Feb
  2. Validated17 Feb
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided19 Feb

Decided in 2 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at Water Lane, Brookstones, Sydenham, OX39 4LY. South Oxfordshire has handled 776 applications of this type. This one was decided in 2 days, 8 weeks quicker than South Oxfordshire's typical decision time. The site is in the Sydenham conservation area, with 3 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 1,026 applications in total for the OX39 postcode area.

100% of trees applications at South Oxfordshire District Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
OX39 4LY
Application type
Works to trees in CA
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
17 February 2026
Decision issued
6 March 2026
Application expires
31 March 2026

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

Documents
2

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: Sydenham Conservation Area
  • 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 (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: South Oxfordshire

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