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Henry Box School Church Green Witney Oxfordshire OX28 4AX

25/00522/TCAWorks to a tree in a Conservation AreaApproved

Approved on 24 March 2025

Council decision: Raise no objectionDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Raise canopy to approx 4m above car parking area and 5m above tennis courts on southern edge of site. Also remove any major deadwood. Trees affected: T5345a, T5348, T5348 (G3), T5349, T5350, T5351, T5352, T5353, T5354, T5355, T5356, T5357, T5358, T5362, T5363, T5364, T5364 (G4), T5366, T5367, T5368. Remove branches overhanging road and power lines from 3 tall pine trees T5345, T5346, T5347. Also remove any major deadwood. This work has been requested to be carried out by the Council after concerns were raised by owners of nearby houses. Shrouding of nearby power cables by SSE will be requested.

Received
27 February 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Witney South
  1. Received27 Feb
  2. Validated27 Feb
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided24 Mar

Decided in 25 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a tree application at Henry Box School Church Green Witney Oxfordshire OX28 4AX. West Oxfordshire has handled 319 applications of this type. This one was decided in 25 days, 3 weeks quicker than West Oxfordshire's typical decision time. The site is in the Kibworth Beauchamp conservation area, with 3 listed buildings nearby. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 39 applications across Witney South. We hold 1,460 applications in total for the OX28 postcode area.

100% of trees applications at West Oxfordshire District Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 7 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
OX28 4AX
Application type
Works to a tree in a Conservation Area
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Witney

Planning application dates

Date validated
27 February 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
7A Church St Stratton St Margaret Swindon SN3 4NB

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13812483
Documents
4

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: tree preservation orders. Ask the council if these matter.

Also checked, none recorded (21)

flood storage areas, Article 4 directions, 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

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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.

Source: West Oxfordshire

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