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St Marys Church Church Street Shipton Under Wychwood Oxfordshire OX7 6BP

25/02564/TCAWorks to a tree in a Conservation AreaApproved

Approved on 25 November 2025

Council decision: Raise no objection

Site boundary (council red line)

Proposal

T413 - Lawson Cypress, Remove T415 - Reduce away from the church (touching) T416 - Reduce from cables T422 - Elder, Remove T487 - Cedar, Raise above the pathway & highway clear church also T401 - Holly - agreed on site reduce by 2m T402 - Yew, 2 meter reduction T408 - Sever ivy T409 - Lime, crown raise 2.4 over footpath

Received
16 October 2025
Ward
Ascott and Shipton
  1. Received16 Oct
  2. Validated16 Oct
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided25 Nov

Decided in 40 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a tree application at St Marys Church Church Street Shipton Under Wychwood Oxfordshire OX7 6BP. West Oxfordshire has handled 319 applications of this type. This one was decided in 40 days, 9 days quicker than West Oxfordshire's typical decision time. The site is in the Shipton under Wychwood conservation area, with 15 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 36 applications across Ascott and Shipton. We hold 2,724 applications in total for the OX7 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
OX7 6BP
Application type
Works to a tree in a Conservation Area
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Shipton Under Wychwood

Planning application dates

Date validated
16 October 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent
Top of Trees
Agent address
The Gatehouse High Street Shipton Under Wychwood Chipping Norton Oxfordshire OX7 6DG

Additional information

Documents
12

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 (20)

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, 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.

© 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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