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The Coach House Oakwood, 7A Spa Road, Melksham, SN12 7NP

PL/2025/00979Consent under Tree Preservation OrdersApproved

Approved on 24 March 2025

Council decision: Approve with Conditions

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

Proposal

T1 - 1 metre tip reduction to Beech tree. T2 - Crown reduce Oak tree by up to 2.5-3m (25%). Crown raise over driveway up to 4m and over car park up to 3-3.5m. Remove any major deadwood

Submitted
29 January 2025
Ward
Melksham South ED
  1. Received29 Jan
  2. Validated29 Jan
  3. Consult.22 Feb
  4. Target26 Mar
  5. Decided24 Mar

Decided in 54 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a tree application at THE COACH HOUSE OAKWOOD, 7A SPA ROAD, MELKSHAM, SN12 7NP. Wiltshire has handled 5,450 applications of this type. This one was decided in 54 days, 5 days longer than Wiltshire's typical decision time. The site is in the Melksham conservation area, with 5 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 24 applications across Melksham South 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 7NP
Application type
Consent under Tree Preservation Orders
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Melksham CP

Planning application dates

Date validated
29 January 2025
Consultation expiry
22 February 2025
Consultation end
22 February 2025
Target decision date
26 March 2025

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
5

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • Conservation area: Melksham
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.

Also checked, none recorded (22)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, 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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