48 Westlecot Road Old Town Swindon SN1 4HD
Approved on 30 October 2025
Council decision: Granted PermissionDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
Works to trees within Conservation area.
- Received
- 22 September 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Swindon Borough Council
- Ward
- Old Town
- ReceivedReceived22 Sep
- ValidatedValidated22 Sep
- Consult.Consultation
- TargetTarget Date3 Nov
- DecidedDecided30 Oct
Decided in 38 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is a tree application at 48 Westlecot Road Old Town Swindon SN1 4HD. Swindon has handled 244 applications of this type. This one was decided in 38 days, 11 days quicker than Swindon's typical decision time. The site is in the Swindon Town Gardens conservation area. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 41 applications across Old Town. We hold 543 applications in total for the SN1 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
- SN1 4HD
- Application type
- Tree Works in a Conservation Area
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Central Swindon South
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 22 September 2025
- Target decision date
- 3 November 2025
- Permission expires
- 30 October 2027
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 42 days
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-14347758
- Documents
- 4
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- Conservation area: Swindon Town Gardens
- 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.
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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.
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© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.
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Planning history at this site
2 other applications at this property, newest first.
Source: Swindon
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