Medlar Cottage Houghton Road Stockbridge Hampshire SO20 6LE
Approved on 28 July 2025
Council decision: NO OBJECTIONDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
T1 - Spindle Tree - Fell
- Received
- 3 July 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Test Valley Borough Council
- Ward
- MID TEST
- Agent
- Merritt Tree Specialists Ltd
- ReceivedReceived3 Jul
- ValidatedValidated3 Jul
- Consult.Consultation24 Jul
- TargetTarget Date14 Aug
- DecidedDecided28 Jul
Decided in 25 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is a tree application at Medlar Cottage Houghton Road Stockbridge Hampshire SO20 6LE. Test Valley has handled 2,853 applications of this type. This one was decided in 25 days, 3 weeks quicker than Test Valley's typical decision time. The site is in the Stockbridge conservation area, with 4 listed buildings nearby. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 272 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 6LE
- Application type
- TREE WORKS IN CONSERVATION AREA - NORTH
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- LONGSTOCK
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 3 July 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 24 July 2025
- Consultation start
- 3 July 2025
- Consultation end
- 24 July 2025
- Last date for comments
- 25 July 2025
- Target decision date
- 14 August 2025
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Merritt Tree Specialists Ltd
- Agent address
- 173 Stanmore Lane Winchester SO22 4BL United Kingdom
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 42 days
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-14148979
- Documents
- 4
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Conservation area: Stockbridge
- Nutrient neutrality catchment: Solent: Includes Chichester and Langstone Harbours SPA/Ramsar, Solent and Southampton Wat…Applies to new homes and overnight accommodation
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
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.
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Planning history at this site
2 other applications at this property, newest first.
- 202018 Mar
T1 Hazel - Remove 1 lowest limb and reduce remaining tree by 1-2m; T2 Sycamore - Reduce to approximately 4m
ApprovedTREE WORKS IN CONSERVATION AREA - NORTH20/00690/TREEN - 20117 Sep
T1, T5, Sycamore remove up to 4 branches, T3, T4 remove up 3 branches, works due to excessive shading
ApprovedTREE WORKS IN CONSERVATION AREA - NORTH11/01995/TREEN
Source: Test Valley
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