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Downside West 26 Quarry Road Winchester Hampshire SO23 0JG

25/02569/TPOTree Preservation OrderApproved

Approved on 16 April 2026

Council decision: Application Permitted

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

Proposal

My client lives in a blanket TPO area, he has a selection of trees on the front bank of his property that are next to the road and footpath. There is one large Oak and a few medium Ash and Maple trees. The roadside sides of the trees are overhanging the road low enough for lorries to clip them and on the other side they are growing towards the house and into overhead phone wires. Applying to raise the height on the roadside branches on all trees to 4m and cut back anything higher by 1.5m, 1.5m reduction away from the house side on all the trees, then a 2.5m reduction on top of the Oak and a 1.5m reduction on the height on the Maples and Ash. Any deadwood to be removed at the same time. There is a large Maple tree on the right of the clump at the front being applied that isn't my clients so won't be being touched. That will be shown on the site plan marked at NT for neighbour tree, clump of maple/ash labelled T1, Oak labelled T2 and Japanese Cedar labelled T3 In the back garden, there is a Japanese Cedar tree growing at 45 degree angle and is very top heavy, so applying to reduce the height on that by 2.5m to reduce the chance of future failure. All work carried out to BS3998

Received
17 December 2025
Ward
ST MICHAEL WARD
  1. Received17 Dec
  2. Validated17 Dec
  3. Consult.28 Feb
  4. Target28 Feb
  5. Decided16 Apr

Decided in 120 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at Downside West 26 Quarry Road Winchester Hampshire SO23 0JG. Winchester has handled 1,052 applications of this type. This one was decided in 120 days, 9 weeks longer than Winchester's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 162 applications across ST MICHAEL WARD. We hold 617 applications in total for the SO23 postcode area.

99% of trees applications at Winchester City Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
SO23 0JG
Application type
Tree Preservation Order
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Winchester Town

Planning application dates

Date validated
17 December 2025
Last date for comments
28 February 2026
Target decision date
28 February 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent
Sturgess Tree Surgery
Agent address
90 Kern Close Southampton SO16 9RE United Kingdom

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14571409
Documents
4
Constraints
4

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • Nutrient neutrality catchment: River Itchen SACApplies to new homes and overnight accommodation · +1 more
  • Brownfield land register: Chilcomb St Swithun, Stratton Road, WinchesterRegister site at or near this address
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions. Ask the council if these matter.

Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.

Also checked, none recorded (20)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, Heritage at Risk entries, national parks, National Landscapes, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves and heritage coasts.

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.

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