West House Bicester Road Stratton Audley OX27 9BP

1. 9 Aug 2026

   Received by Cherwell

2. 23 Aug 2026

   Added to PlanIndex

3. Decision

   Awaiting decision

   Decision expected by 4 October 2026, 8 weeks from validation under the statutory target for most applications. Extensions of time are common and are agreed case by case.

   Cherwell took a median of 57 days over the applications it decided in the last year.

This application is with Cherwell for determination. The council publicises it, consults neighbours and technical bodies where required, and weighs the responses against local and national planning policy.

The statutory target is eight weeks for most applications and thirteen for major development, though extensions of time are common. Comments carry most weight while the case is undecided, so check the council portal for the deadline if you want to respond.

Tree applications cover work to protected trees: those under a tree preservation order need consent for pruning or felling, and trees in a conservation area need six weeks written notice before work starts. The council assesses the amenity value of the tree and can refuse consent, approve it with conditions, or in conservation areas make a preservation order in response.

More on trees applications in our guide

• Stratton Audley Hall Bicester Road Stratton Audley Oxfordshire OX27 9BS

  25/00818/TCA Submitted 26 Mar 2025 84m away

  97% historically approved · decision due ~21 May

  G1 Leyland Cypress - Carefully sectional dismantle and fell to ground level. G2 Yew - Crown Lift to provide 1.5 metres clearance from roof to facilitate repair essential works.

  Awaiting decision Trees 7 docs

• Stratton Audley Hall Bicester Road Stratton Audley Bicester OX27 9BS

  25/02493/F Submitted 22 Sep 2025 84m away

  92% historically approved · decision due ~8 Dec

  Conversion of an existing former stable to provide a garage/workshop with attached secure tool storage plus welfare facilities (toilets plus kitchen) for grounds staff. Demolition of a collection of former outhouses in the internal courtyard of Stratton Audley Hall and their replacement with an outbuilding for the processing of waste wood into logs for internal use, together with a portico to shelter a stack of cut logs by the rear entrance. Demolition of existing workshop with chimney and two garages to provide 2 car ports, a machinery store and a tenants’ garden store. Enlargement of main access gates to facilitate car entrance

  Awaiting decision Full applications Demolition 34 docs

• Stratton Audley Hall Bicester Road Stratton Audley OX27 9BS

  23/00261/TCA Submitted 1 Feb 2023 84m away

  Works: Remove 23 small orchard fruit trees for replanting (5xapple, 5xplum, 3xapricot, 5xcherry, 5xpear) and all stumps ground out 2xfig to be reduced in height by 1m and pruned. Given the larger part of the site's UK BAP designation as a 'traditional orchard', I will outline below the issues with the trees' condition as justification for felling, as well as the replanting scheme which will bring the orchard in line with guidance. In reference to the attached image 'Felling Justification SAHO.pdf': Trees 4, 5, 6 and 7 are the only specimens which existed before the orchard was planted in 1995 and are all visibly in decline. Trees 1 and 9 are Apricot trees which have failed to ever produce fruit. Tree 2 (Apple) has collapsed. Tree 3 (Cherry) produces an insignificantly small crop each year. Trees 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 16, 17, 18 and 19 (Damson and Plum) have been overwhelmed by their rootstocks and no longer produce their intended fruit. Trees 14 and 15 are in decline. A further five trees are in good condition and are suitable species for a traditional orchard so will be retained. The other fells in this application are outside of the traditional orchard area and are in decline. In reference to the attached image 'Orchard Replant Stratton Hackney', the numbers refer to 2m standards to be replanted, corresponding to the following list: 1 -Conference Pear on Quince A rootstock 2 -Red Williams Pear on Quince A rootstock 3 -Reine Claude d’Oullins Gage 4 -Mirabelle de Nancy Plum 5 -Sunburst Cherry 6 -Stella Cherry 7 -Portugal Quince 8 -Lescovaka Quince 9 -Nottingham Medlar A - Domestic Apple (exact variety TBC closer to the time dependent on availability) This planting scheme is overwhelmingly in line with the UK BAP guidance and the client is open to substituting some Quince/Medlar for more traditional species like Walnut/Cobnut when it comes to finalising. The orchard will have more trees than currently exist there, and at spacings in line with guidance. The orchard is currently and will continue to be subject to low intensity management: no chemical pesticide or herbicide has ever been used on the trees or grassland beneath, and it is cut twice a year as a traditional hay cut. These works will result in a healthily functioning traditional orchard well in line with guidance in terms of species, structure and management.

  Granted Trees 9 docs

• Mattingley Barn & Stratton House Stoke Lyne Road Stratton Audley OX27 9AT

  26/00729/F Submitted 23 Mar 2026 96m away

  External alterations including boundary wall alterations, formation of garden door between properties, infilling of door to rear elevation of Stratton House, and garden lighting

  Granted Full applications 14 docs
  Small domestic

• St Mary And St Edburgas Church Stoke Lyne Road Stratton Audley OX27 9AQ

  26/01847/TCA Submitted 20 Jul 2026 115m away

  Laburnum, a group of two trees with retrenchment of the upper canopy and partial failure/major deadwood arising from the main branch unions. Fell to permit the installation of a new garden/storage shed. Bird Cherry, obstructing the highway, Cut back to create 5.2m highways clearance and reshape the retained crown.

  Granted Trees 7 docs
  Small domestic

• Mallories Cherry Street Stratton Audley Bicester OX27 9AA

  26/00262/F Submitted 30 Jan 2026 150m away

  Construction of a timber framed outbuilding in the rear garden to be used as an office, store, workshop and open carport, ancillary to the main dwellinghouse

  Granted Full applications 7 docs
  Small domestic

• 26/02252/TCA Awaiting decision

  Castle End House Castle Street Deddington Oxfordshire OX15 0TE

  Original sent on the 26/07/26 Not recieved T1 ~ Horse Chestnut ~ Fell ~ Tree in server decline with Phytophthora present and active. Dead wood and tip die back throughout. Removal to allow reinstatement with heavy standard Dawyck Beech specimen tree.

  3 Sep 2026 Trees
• 26/02242/TCA Awaiting decision

  29 North Street Banbury OX16 3LH

  A crab apple tree situated within the small front garden. The tree has become overgrown and disproportionately large for the confined garden area, with a dense crown extending close to the house and over the front garden. Its size and position make the garden difficult to maintain and reduce light to the front elevation and adjoining windows. The proposal is to remove the tree and stump and restore the front garden

  1 Sep 2026 Trees
• 26/01793/TPO Granted

  The Dower House Church Road Weston On The Green Bicester OX25 3QP

  Removal of 15 stems of sycamores that are dead from sooty bark disease - subject to TPO 10/98 G1

  6 Jul 2026 Trees
• 26/01647/TPO Granted

  1 Old School Lane Fritwell OX27 7PY

  Sycamore - crown reduce by 2-2.5m south removing up to 3m and crown thin by 20%, the pruning will allow additional light to reach the garden and clear the residence. The adjacent tree east was pruned by us around 2 years ago, the aerial image shows the clearance we achieved. Epicormic growth 0-8m will also be removed. To re-shape the retained crown a 1m reduction (removing up to 2m) above the neighbouring garden, west will be completed - subject to TPO 023/2005

  29 Jun 2026 Trees
• 26/01646/TPO Granted

  5 Old Rectory High Street Upper Heyford OX25 5LL

  Lime - A group of four stems maintained annually to create a pollard effect - re-pollard; Holm Oak - heavily reduced in 2017 to create a pollard effect, regularly trimmed to maintain screening for neighbouring residence - annual trim using a hedge trimmer - subject to TPO 04/1966

  26 Jun 2026 Trees