Walnut Tree Cottage Lower Street Higham Colchester Suffolk CO7 6JZ
Approved on 8 November 2019
Council decision: Raise No ObjectionDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
Notification of Works to Trees in a Conservation Area - (T1) Contorted Willow- Reduce by 50%. (T2) Weeping Willow- Thin and reduce by 30%.
- Received
- 9 October 2019
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Babergh District Council
- Ward
- Brett Vale
- ReceivedReceived9 Oct
- ValidatedValidated10 Oct
- Consult.Consultation31 Oct
- TargetTarget Date21 Nov
- DecidedDecided8 Nov
Decided in 29 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is a tree application at Walnut Tree Cottage Lower Street Higham Colchester Suffolk CO7 6JZ. Babergh Mid Suffolk has handled 1,921 applications of this type. This one was decided in 30 days, 3 weeks quicker than Babergh Mid Suffolk's typical decision time. The site is in the Higham conservation area, with 2 listed buildings nearby. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 70 applications across Brett Vale. We hold 2,584 applications in total for the CO7 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
- CO7 6JZ
- Application type
- Notification: Works to Trees in Con Area
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Higham
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 10 October 2019
- Consultation expiry
- 31 October 2019
- Consultation start
- 10 October 2019
- Consultation end
- 31 October 2019
- Last date for comments
- 31 October 2019
- Target decision date
- 21 November 2019
- Permission expires
- 8 November 2021
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- Partridge Cottage Stoke Road Layham IP7 5RB
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 42 days
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- Conservation area: Higham
- 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 (20)
flood storage areas, listed buildings, 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
2 other applications at this property, newest first.
Source: Babergh Mid Suffolk
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