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The Old Forge Polstead Green Polstead Colchester CO6 5AL

B/09/01353Notification: Works to Trees in Con AreaApproved
Prior approval

Approved on 22 February 2010

Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Crown reduce by up to 30% or back to previous pollard points of 1 No. Chestnut Tree.

Received
17 November 2009
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
  1. Received17 Nov
  2. Validated25 Jan
  3. Consult.
  4. Target22 Feb
  5. Decided22 Feb

Decided in 28 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a tree application at The Old Forge Polstead Green Polstead Colchester CO6 5AL. Babergh Mid Suffolk has handled 1,921 applications of this type. This one was decided in 97 days, 7 weeks longer than Babergh Mid Suffolk's typical decision time. The site is in the Polstead conservation area, with 6 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded 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 5AL
Application type
Notification: Works to Trees in Con Area
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Polstead

Planning application dates

Date validated
25 January 2010
Consultation expiry
17 February 2010
Consultation start
27 January 2010
Target decision date
22 February 2010

Planning decision

Statutory period
28 days

Publicity

Site notice end
17 February 2010

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
1

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Polstead
  • Listed building: Grade II: The Old ForgeOn this site · +1 more
  • 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.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

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© 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: Babergh Mid Suffolk

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