Planning application
1 Woodcote Drive Upton BH16 5RA
Works: Trees
Refused. Only the applicant can appeal, within the statutory time limit, and a revised scheme can be submitted instead.
Proposal
T1-Silver Birch: Undertake a full crown reduction of no more than 1.2m from the tips inwards. Ensuring that no pruning wounds exceed 60mm in diameter and that all cuts are brought back to viable growth points. T2- Silver Birch: Fell to ground level and replace with x1 Nursery grown Silver Birch 1.5-2m
As published by the council, reference P/TRT/2026/01568
Application record
- Reference
- P/TRT/2026/01568
- Type
- Tree Works- TPO
- Status
- Application Refused
- Decision
- Tree Works - TPO - Refused
- Received
- 19 Mar 2026
- Validated
- 19 Mar 2026
- Decided
- 20 Apr 2026
- Ward
- Lytchett Matravers and Upton Ward
- Parish
- Lytchett Minster and Upton
- Decision by
- Delegated
- Postcode
- BH16 5RA
Timeline
Dates from the published record
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19 Mar 2026
Received by Dorset
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20 Apr 2026
Decision issued: Tree Works - TPO - Refused
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11 Aug 2026
Added to PlanIndex
Documents
Plans, drawings, consultee responses and the officer's report
4 documents on file for this application
A planning file usually holds the application form, drawings and site plans, consultee responses, the officer's report and the decision notice.
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Open the documentsWhat refusal means
The process from here
The council refused this application for the reasons set out on the decision notice, which the council portal holds in full. Only the applicant can appeal a refusal; the time limit runs from the decision date and is shorter for householder schemes.
Refusal does not prevent a fresh attempt. Applicants often address the reasons for refusal and resubmit, so a refused scheme is not necessarily the end of proposals for the site.
About trees applications
How this application type works
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.
Nearby applications
Within 500 metres
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1 Woodcote Drive Upton BH16 5RA
T1 Silver Birch - Crown lift to 4 metres all-round removing small diameter secondary and tertiary branches no bigger than 30 mm diameter. - Thin the small diameter internal branches by up to 10%. T2 Silver Birch - Crown lift to 4 metres all-round. - Reduce the lower overextended branches by no more than 1 metre back to appropriate growth points. - Thin out by 10% removing small diameter internal branches no bigger than 20 mm diameter.
Granted Trees 4 docs -
3 Cherry Hill Grove Upton BH16 5LP
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Awaiting decision Trees 1 doc -
1 Cherry Hill Grove Upton BH16 5LP
T1 Maple - Crown lift to 5m all-round this will only be removing small diameter epicormic and pendulous branches. - Reduce the lower overextended branch growing towards the driveway (pointing North) by up to 2m back to an appropriate growth point. T2 Chestnut - Crown lift to match T1. - Remove x 1 secondary branch growing towards the property.
Granted Trees 4 docs -
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Granted Trees 5 docs -
18 Woodcote Drive Upton BH16 5RA
94% historically approved · decision due ~29 Sep
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Awaiting decision Trees 2 docs -
Yarrells Preparatory School Yarrells Drive Upton BH16 5EU
T1 Monterey Cypress - Reduce the lowest primary branch in a NE direction by no more than 1.2m from the tips inwards. - Raise the crown to 5m from ground level. - Reduce x 2 lowest primary branches on SE aspect by no more than 1.2m from the tips. T2 Eucalyptus - Reduce the entire tree by 50% to a finished height of 13m from ground level. - Remove the lowest primary branch at 2m on the SW aspect back to its point of origin. - Sever all girdled roots at ground level.
Granted Trees 4 docs
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