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Land Rear Of 4/5 High Street, Stourton, Warminster, BA12 6QF

PL/2026/05725Notification of proposed works to trees in a conservation areaApproved

Approved on 19 October 2026

Council decision: No Objection

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

Proposal

Trees in tenanted property car park behind cricket club and serving cottages 4/5 High Street Stourhead and tree in cottage garden T1 - Fraxinus excelsior - Ash tree - exhibiting 50% or more Ash Dieback, leaning into tenant parking area - fell T2 - Fagus sylvatica - Common Beech tree - leaning, badly formed, into tenant parking area - fell T3 - Salix alba - Common Willow tree - multi stemmed, outgrown scale and space of garden, interacting with overhead powerlines - fell T4 - Fraxinus excelsior - Ash tree - showing signs of Ash dieback and leaning into Cricket Pavilion - fell T5 - Acer psuedoplatanus Sycamore tree - lower branches on Cricket Pavilion side interacting with roof of building, carefully reduce these branches to enable a 5m clearance from building

Received
9 September 2026
Ward
Mere ED
  1. Received9 Sep
  2. Validated9 Sep
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided19 Oct

Decided in 40 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a planning application at LAND REAR OF 4/5 HIGH STREET, STOURTON, WARMINSTER, BA12 6QF. Wiltshire has handled 386 applications of this type. This one was decided in 40 days, 9 days quicker than Wiltshire's typical decision time. The site is in the Stourton conservation area, with 3 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 67 applications across Mere ED. We hold 1,459 applications in total for the BA12 postcode area.

99% of notification of proposed works to trees in a conservation area 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
BA12 6QF
Application type
Notification of proposed works to trees in a conservation area
Parish
Stourton with Gasper CP

Planning application dates

Date validated
9 September 2026

Planning decision

Case officer
Sue Morgan

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: Stourton
  • Listed building: Grade II: 4 and 5, High StreetOn or next to this site · +1 more
  • National Landscape (AONB): Cranborne Chase & West Wiltshire Downs
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.

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.

Source: Wiltshire

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