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All Saints Church Church Lane Houghton Stockbridge Hampshire SO20 6LJ

24/01702/TREESTREE WORKS IN CONSERVATION AREA - SOUTHApproved

Approved on 15 August 2024

Council decision: NO OBJECTIONDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

T1 and T2 - Mature Horse Chestnut - Remove major deadwood, crown reduce by 2m and crown raise to 2.5m, T3 - Yew - Crown raise over path to 3m and remove large hanging limb

Received
24 July 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
MID TEST
Agent
Tree Technique Ltd
  1. Received24 Jul
  2. Validated24 Jul
  3. Consult.14 Aug
  4. Target4 Sep
  5. Decided15 Aug

Decided in 22 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a tree application at All Saints Church Church Lane Houghton Stockbridge Hampshire SO20 6LJ. Test Valley has handled 2,853 applications of this type. This one was decided in 22 days, 4 weeks quicker than Test Valley's typical decision time. The site is in the Houghton and Bossington conservation area, with 7 listed buildings nearby. There have been 4 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 271 applications across MID TEST. We hold 2,695 applications in total for the SO20 postcode area.

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

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Application details

Postcode
SO20 6LJ
Application type
TREE WORKS IN CONSERVATION AREA - SOUTH
Scale / size
Small
Parish
HOUGHTON

Planning application dates

Date validated
24 July 2024
Consultation expiry
14 August 2024
Consultation start
24 July 2024
Consultation end
14 August 2024
Last date for comments
15 August 2024
Target decision date
4 September 2024

Applicant and agent

Agent
Tree Technique Ltd
Agent address
Longacre Firsdown Salisbury Wiltshire SP4 6DT

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13273358
Documents
11

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

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 (19)

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, 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

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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.

© 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

6 other applications at this property, newest first.

  1. 2025
    11 Jun

    T1 - Bay - Re-coppice to last coppicing points, T2 - Yew - Branches over-hanging boundary wall - prune back…

    ApprovedTREE WORKS IN CONSERVATION AREA - SOUTH25/01305/TREES
  2. 2023
    22 Dec

    2 x Yew - Reduce low extended branches back in line with upper canopy Western Red Cedar group Crown raise…

    ApprovedTREE WORKS IN CONSERVATION AREA - SOUTH23/03257/TREES
  3. 2023
    18 Dec

    Erection of shed

    PERMISSION subject to conditions & notesFULL APPLICATION - SOUTH23/03207/FULLS
  4. 2016
    10 Aug

    Small rear extension to create WC and store and works to North aisle to create a flexible meeting space and…

    WithdrawnFULL APPLICATION - SOUTH16/01927/FULLS
  5. 2014
    3 Jun

    T1. Clipped Yew - Tree adjacent to the entrance to the churchyard - Reduction by one third and then to…

    ApprovedTREE WORKS IN CONSERVATION AREA - SOUTH14/01329/TREES
  6. 2014
    9 May

    Carry out tree works as described in application.

    ApprovedTREE WORKS IN CONSERVATION AREA - SOUTH14/01119/TREES

Source: Test Valley

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