April Cottage Church Meadow Gislingham Road Finningham Stowmarket Suffolk IP14 4JU
Approved on 16 October 2020
Council decision: Raise No ObjectionDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
Application for works to trees in a Conservation Area - Fell 1No Sycamore (T1) due to growth and proximity to the house causing excessive shade and debris deposits on our and the neighbouring land and footpaths.
- Received
- 17 September 2020
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Babergh District Council
- Ward
- Bacton
- ReceivedReceived17 Sep
- ValidatedValidated17 Sep
- Consult.Consultation8 Oct
- TargetTarget Date29 Oct
- DecidedDecided16 Oct
Decided in 29 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is a tree application at April Cottage Church Meadow Gislingham Road Finningham Stowmarket Suffolk IP14 4JU. Babergh Mid Suffolk has handled 1,921 applications of this type. This one was decided in 29 days, 3 weeks quicker than Babergh Mid Suffolk's typical decision time. The site is in the Finningham conservation area, with 3 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 32 applications across Bacton. We hold 1,277 applications in total for the IP14 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
- IP14 4JU
- Application type
- Notification: Works to Trees in Con Area
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Finningham
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 17 September 2020
- Consultation expiry
- 8 October 2020
- Consultation start
- 17 September 2020
- Consultation end
- 8 October 2020
- Last date for comments
- 8 October 2020
- Target decision date
- 29 October 2020
- Permission expires
- 16 October 2022
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 42 days
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- Conservation area: Finningham
- 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 (21)
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, 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
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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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