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Hedgerow located on each side of existing gate at Bath Road, Melksham, Wiltshire, SN12 8EG.

PL/2025/00390Hedgerow removal noticeApproved

Approved on 19 February 2025

Council decision: No Objection

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

Proposal

Section of temporary hedgerow removal is required 1m either side of an existing gate access, therefore 2m total, to facilitate a sewer replacement scheme being undertaken by Wessex Water. The temporary removal is required to facilitate access for construc

Submitted
15 January 2025
Ward
Melksham Without North & Shurnhold ED
  1. Received15 Jan
  2. Validated15 Jan
  3. Consult.18 Feb
  4. Target26 Feb
  5. Decided19 Feb

Decided in 35 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a tree application at Hedgerow located on each side of existing gate at Bath Road, Melksham, Wiltshire, SN12 8EG.. Wiltshire has handled 5,450 applications of this type. This one was decided in 35 days, 2 weeks quicker than Wiltshire's typical decision time. The site is in 3 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 35 applications across Melksham Without North & Shurnhold ED. We hold 274 applications in total for the SN12 postcode area.

99% of trees applications at Wiltshire Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 7 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
SN12 8EG
Application type
Hedgerow removal notice
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Melksham Without CP

Planning application dates

Date validated
15 January 2025
Consultation expiry
18 February 2025
Consultation end
18 February 2025
Target decision date
26 February 2025

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

Documents
7

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.

Also checked, none recorded (22)

flood storage areas, conservation 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

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: Wiltshire

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