The Old Barn Church Road Liddington Swindon SN4 0HB

S/TWC/25/1175Tree Works in a Conservation AreaApproved

Approved on 29 October 2025

Council decision: Granted PermissionDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Works to Trees within Conservation area.

Received: 18 September 2025
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Council: Swindon Borough Council
Ward: Ridgeway

ReceivedReceived18 Sep
ValidatedValidated18 Sep
Consult.Consultation
TargetTarget Date30 Oct
DecidedDecided29 Oct

Decided in 41 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a tree application at The Old Barn Church Road Liddington Swindon SN4 0HB. Swindon has handled 244 applications of this type. This one was decided in 41 days, 8 days quicker than Swindon's typical decision time. The site is in the Liddington conservation area, with 5 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 71 applications across Ridgeway. We hold 900 applications in total for the SN4 postcode area.

99% of trees applications at Swindon Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 7 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode: SN4 0HB
Application type: Tree Works in a Conservation Area
Scale / size: Small
Parish: Liddington

Planning application dates

Date validated: 18 September 2025
Target decision date: 30 October 2025
Permission expires: 29 October 2027

Planning decision

Statutory period: 42 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: Liddington
National Landscape (AONB): North Wessex Downs
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, 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.

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Source: Swindon

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