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Old Laundry Cottage Old Forge Road Great Rollright Chipping Norton Oxfordshire OX7 5RR

26/02176/TCAApproved

Approved on 9 October 2026

Council decision: Raise no objection

Site boundary (council red line)

Proposal

3 mature silver birches - remove the low lateral branches and reduce canopy by 10/15% Eucalyptus - crown reduction by 10/15% with more coming off the lateral limbs that protrude out much further than the rest of the canopy.

Received
8 September 2026
Public comments
0 · last counted 14 October 2026
Ward
Kingham, Rollright and Enstone
  1. Received8 Sep
  2. Validated8 Sep
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided9 Oct

Decided in 31 days

About this application

This is a planning application at Old Laundry Cottage Old Forge Road Great Rollright Chipping Norton Oxfordshire OX7 5RR. West Oxfordshire has handled 10,247 applications of this type. This one was decided in 31 days, 3 weeks quicker than West Oxfordshire's typical decision time. The site is in the Great Rollright conservation area, with 3 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 137 applications across Kingham, Rollright and Enstone. We hold 2,724 applications in total for the OX7 postcode area.

Application details

Postcode
OX7 5RR
Parish
Rollright

Planning application dates

Date validated
8 September 2026

Applicant and agent

Applicant
Private applicant

Planning decision

Case officer
Henry Penny

Additional information

Documents
6

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Great Rollright Conservation Area
  • Listed building: Grade II: The FarmsteadOn or next to this site
  • National Landscape (AONB): Cotswolds
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

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.

Planning history at this site

1 other application at this property, newest first.

  1. 2026
    25 Aug

    Cherry tree - reduce by up to 2 meters

    ApprovedApplication26/02063/TCA

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