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Willow Lodge The Common Mellis Eye Suffolk IP23 8EF

DC/19/02458Notification: Works to Trees in Con AreaApproved
Prior approval

Approved on 14 June 2019

Council decision: Raise No ObjectionDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Notification of Works to Trees in a Conservation Area - T1 (Ash) - Fell. T2 (Ash) - Fell. T3 (Eucalyptus) - Reduce to 45 cm stump and grow as coppiced shrub.

Received
20 May 2019
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Gislingham
  1. Received20 May
  2. Validated21 May
  3. Consult.
  4. Target2 Jul
  5. Decided14 Jun

Decided in 24 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a tree application at Willow Lodge The Common Mellis Eye Suffolk IP23 8EF. Babergh Mid Suffolk has handled 1,921 applications of this type. This one was decided in 25 days, 3 weeks quicker than Babergh Mid Suffolk's typical decision time. The site is in the Mellis conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There have been 3 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 44 applications across Gislingham. We hold 1,281 applications in total for the IP23 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
IP23 8EF
Application type
Notification: Works to Trees in Con Area
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Mellis

Planning application dates

Date validated
21 May 2019
Target decision date
2 July 2019
Permission expires
14 June 2021

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-07871233
Comments
0
Documents
3
Constraints
5

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

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 (20)

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, National Landscapes, 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

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.

Source: Babergh Mid Suffolk

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