Holly Cottage 48 High Street Blunsdon Swindon SN26 7AE

S/TWC/26/0488Tree Works in a Conservation AreaApproved

Approved on 15 May 2026

Council decision: Granted Permission

Site boundary (council red line)

Proposal

Works to trees in a Conservation area.

Received: 14 April 2026
Council: Swindon Borough Council
Ward: Blunsdon And Highworth

ReceivedReceived14 Apr
ValidatedValidated20 Apr
Consult.Consultation
TargetTarget Date1 Jun
DecidedDecided15 May

Decided in 25 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a tree application at Holly Cottage 48 High Street Blunsdon Swindon SN26 7AE. Swindon has handled 244 applications of this type. This one was decided in 31 days, 3 weeks quicker than Swindon's typical decision time. The site is in the Broad Blunsdon conservation area, with 3 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 57 applications across Blunsdon And Highworth. We hold 49 applications in total for the SN26 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: SN26 7AE
Application type: Tree Works in a Conservation Area
Scale / size: Small
Parish: Blunsdon Parish Council

Planning application dates

Date validated: 20 April 2026
Target decision date: 1 June 2026

Applicant and agent

Applicant: Private applicant

Planning decision

Case officer: Clare Wood
Statutory period: 42 days

Additional information

Documents: 6
Constraints: 6

Site constraints

Checking the site

2/3

Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

Conservation area: Broad Blunsdon
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.

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.

Source: Swindon

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