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Bell Court The Plain Nympsfield Stonehouse Gloucestershire GL10 3UE

S.26/0012/TCATrees in a Conservation AreaApproved

Approved on 4 February 2026

Council decision: ConsentDelegated (officer decision)

Site boundary (council red line)

Proposal

Mixed Orchard (G1): Group consists of six fruit trees (apple, plum, pear) - routine orchard management pruning, including crown thinning and reduction where necessary, removal of dead, diseased, crossing or poorly formed branches & formative pruning to maintain a balanced structure.

Received
5 January 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Coaley & Uley Ward
  1. Received5 Jan
  2. Validated5 Jan
  3. Consult.3 Feb
  4. Target
  5. Decided4 Feb

Decided in 30 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a tree application at Bell Court The Plain Nympsfield Stonehouse Gloucestershire GL10 3UE. Stroud has handled 1,025 applications of this type. This one was decided in 30 days, 3 weeks quicker than Stroud's typical decision time. The site is in the Nympsfield conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 81 applications across Coaley & Uley Ward. We hold 1,241 applications in total for the GL10 postcode area.

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

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Application details

Postcode
GL10 3UE
Application type
Trees in a Conservation Area
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Nympsfield Parish Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
5 January 2026
Consultation expiry
3 February 2026
Consultation end
3 February 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Bencombe Tree Care Ltd 2 Bencombe Cottages Lampern Hill Uley Dursley Gloucestershire GL11 5BT

Additional information

Documents
4

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Nympsfield
  • National Landscape (AONB): Cotswolds
  • 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 (20)

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, 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

1 other application at this property, newest first.

  1. 2024
    4 Nov

    T1 Yew: Removal to ground level.

    ApprovedTrees in a Conservation AreaS.24/2002/TCA

Source: Stroud

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