Tinkers Cottage Polstead Hill Polstead Colchester CO6 5AH
Approved on 8 December 2008
Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Reduce 1 No. Beech tree back to previous pruning points and reduce 1 No. Sycamore and 3 No. Silver Birch trees as required.
- Received
- 11 November 2008
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Babergh District Council
- ReceivedReceived11 Nov
- ValidatedValidated12 Nov
- Consult.Consultation
- TargetTarget Date7 Jan
- DecidedDecided8 Dec
Decided in 26 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is a tree application at Tinkers Cottage Polstead Hill Polstead Colchester CO6 5AH. Babergh Mid Suffolk has handled 1,921 applications of this type. This one was decided in 27 days, 3 weeks quicker than Babergh Mid Suffolk's typical decision time. The site is in the Polstead conservation area, with 7 listed buildings nearby. There have been 2 other applications at this address. We hold 2,522 applications in total for the CO6 postcode area.
99% of trees applications at Babergh District Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 7 weeks (median).
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Application details
- Postcode
- CO6 5AH
- Application type
- Notification: Works to Trees in Con Area
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Polstead
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 12 November 2008
- Consultation expiry
- 4 December 2008
- Consultation start
- 13 November 2008
- Target decision date
- 7 January 2009
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Publicity
- Last advertised
- 18 November 2008
- Site notice end
- 4 December 2008
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Conservation area: Polstead
- National Landscape (AONB): Dedham Vale
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions and tree preservation orders. Ask the council if these matter.
Also checked, none recorded (19)
flood storage areas, 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.
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Planning history at this site
3 other applications at this property, newest first.
- 202014 Sep
Notification for works to trees in a Conservation Area - T1 (Beech) and T2 (Sycamore) - Prune by 30%
ApprovedNotification: Works to Trees in Con AreaDC/20/04010 - 201523 Jan
Reduce 1 no. beech tree to previous pruning points.
ApprovedNotification: Works to Trees in Con AreaB/15/00077 - 201317 Sep
Application for Listed Building Consent - Alterations to roof and fenestration of existing rear conservatory…
ApprovedListed building consentB/13/01096
Source: Babergh Mid Suffolk
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