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17 The Pitchens Wroughton Swindon SN4 0RU

S/TWC/25/1495Tree Works in a Conservation AreaApproved

Approved on 18 December 2025

Council decision: Granted PermissionDelegated (officer decision)

Site boundary (council red line)

Proposal

Works to Trees within Conservation area. Goat willow to be pollard to a monolith of circa 6ft form ground level, removal of dead Laburnum and prune of Hornbean on driveway.

Received
14 November 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Wroughton And Wichelstowe
  1. Received14 Nov
  2. Validated14 Nov
  3. Consult.
  4. Target26 Dec
  5. Decided18 Dec

Decided in 34 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a tree application at 17 The Pitchens Wroughton Swindon SN4 0RU. Swindon has handled 244 applications of this type. This one was decided in 34 days, 2 weeks quicker than Swindon's typical decision time. The site is in the Wroughton conservation area, with 2 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 41 applications across Wroughton And Wichelstowe. 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 0RU
Application type
Tree Works in a Conservation Area
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Wroughton

Planning application dates

Date validated
14 November 2025
Target decision date
26 December 2025
Permission expires
18 December 2027

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14269240
Documents
4
Constraints
5

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Wroughton
  • Listed building: Grade II: 16, the PitchensOn or next to this site · +1 more
  • 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, 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.

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