The Retreat Chapel Lane Blewbury Didcot OX11 9PQ

P26/V3842/TCAWorks to trees in CAApproved

Approved on 17 September 2026

Council decision: No obj CA worksNot Yet Recommended

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

T1 Laurel Hedge - Reduce height by 3 meters leaving 2 meters in height and reducing the side by 1 meter to leave a meter wide hedge.

Received: 2 September 2026
Decision level: Not Yet Recommended
Council: Vale of White Horse District Council

ReceivedReceived2 Sep
ValidatedValidated2 Sep
Consult.Consultation
TargetTarget Date
DecidedDecided17 Sep

Decided in 15 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at The Retreat Chapel Lane Blewbury Didcot OX11 9PQ. Vale of White Horse has handled 264 applications of this type. This one was decided in 15 days, 6 weeks quicker than Vale of White Horse's typical decision time. The site is in the Blewbury conservation area, with 9 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 2,447 applications in total for the OX11 postcode area.

100% of trees applications at Vale of White Horse District Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode: OX11 9PQ
Application type: Works to trees in CA
Scale / size: Small

Planning application dates

Date validated: 2 September 2026
Application expires: 14 October 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent: W J Saunders Forestry

Planning decision

Case officer: Edward Stanhope
Statutory period: 42 days

Additional information

Documents: 5

Site constraints

Checking the site

2/3

Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

Conservation area: Blewbury Conservation Area
National Landscape (AONB): North Wessex Downs
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, 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, 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: Vale of White Horse

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