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Seend House, High Street, Seend, Melksham, SN12 6NR

PL/2025/01604Notification of proposed works to trees in a conservation areaApproved
Prior approval

Approved on 16 March 2025

Council decision: No Objection

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

Proposal

T1 Sycamore - Fell, due to decay at base circa 80% of diameter. T2 Chestnut - Fell, due to pockets of decay at 2m AGL circa 60% of diameter T3 Beech, Side prune and shape over to clear Greenhouse. T4 Cherry, Fell to ground due to damaged root plate. G

Submitted
17 February 2025
Ward
Devizes Rural West ED
  1. Received17 Feb
  2. Validated17 Feb
  3. Consult.13 Mar
  4. Target31 Mar
  5. Decided16 Mar

Decided in 27 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a tree application at SEEND HOUSE, HIGH STREET, SEEND, MELKSHAM, SN12 6NR. Wiltshire has handled 5,450 applications of this type. This one was decided in 27 days, 3 weeks quicker than Wiltshire's typical decision time. The site is in the Seend conservation area, with 8 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 90 applications across Devizes Rural West ED. We hold 273 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 6NR
Application type
Notification of proposed works to trees in a conservation area
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Seend CP

Planning application dates

Date validated
17 February 2025
Consultation expiry
13 March 2025
Consultation end
13 March 2025
Target decision date
31 March 2025

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

Documents
3

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: Seend
  • Listed building: Grade II: 1-4, High StreetOn or next to this site
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.

Also checked, none recorded (21)

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, 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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