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St Marys Church Church Lane Witney Oxfordshire OX28 3LA

25/02647/TCAWorks to a tree in a Conservation AreaApproved

Approved on 21 November 2025

Council decision: Raise no objection

Site boundary (council red line)

Proposal

G1 Mixed- Holly, western red cedar, laurel, cherry and yews - Crown lift all trees to 2.5 metres from ground level Remove dead ivy from western red cedar and remove sections of major deadwood and old pruning stubs. laurel - Fell to ground level and remove from site T1 Yew - Fell in sections to ground level and remove from site. G2 Mixed - Holly, lawson cypress and yew - Crown lift all large trees to 2.5 metres to open up visual splay through church yard. Conifer - Fell to ground level Yew - fell to ground level G3 Mixed - Cherry, poplar, western red cedar, elm, holly and yew - Crown lift all trees to 2.5 metres. Elm tree- fell to ground level. Remove dead wood out of young poplar, birch and from the lower crown of holly.

Received
28 October 2025
Ward
Witney East
Agent
Boward Tree Surgery (Oxford) Ltd
  1. Received28 Oct
  2. Validated28 Oct
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided21 Nov

Decided in 24 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a tree application at St Marys Church Church Lane Witney Oxfordshire OX28 3LA. West Oxfordshire has handled 319 applications of this type. This one was decided in 24 days, 4 weeks quicker than West Oxfordshire's typical decision time. The site is in the Witney and Cogges conservation area, with 12 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 24 applications across Witney East. 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 3LA
Application type
Works to a tree in a Conservation Area
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Witney

Planning application dates

Date validated
28 October 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent
Boward Tree Surgery (Oxford) Ltd
Agent address
The Log Quarry Church Road Long Hanborough Witney Oxfordshire OX29 8JF

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14433456
Documents
17

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, 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

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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