White House Cottage The Common Mellis Eye Suffolk IP23 8EB
Approved on 29 January 2021
Council decision: Raise No ObjectionDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
Application for works to trees in a Conservation Area - Cut back row of ash trees to have overhang over garage sided back. Reduce 1No Hawthorn by up to 15% (2m).
- Received
- 6 January 2021
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Babergh District Council
- Ward
- Gislingham
- ReceivedReceived6 Jan
- ValidatedValidated6 Jan
- Consult.Consultation27 Jan
- TargetTarget Date17 Feb
- DecidedDecided29 Jan
Decided in 23 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is a tree application at White House Cottage The Common Mellis Eye Suffolk IP23 8EB. Babergh Mid Suffolk has handled 1,921 applications of this type. This one was decided in 23 days, 4 weeks quicker than Babergh Mid Suffolk's typical decision time. The site is in the Mellis conservation area, with 3 listed buildings 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 8EB
- Application type
- Notification: Works to Trees in Con Area
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Mellis
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 6 January 2021
- Consultation expiry
- 27 January 2021
- Consultation start
- 6 January 2021
- Consultation end
- 27 January 2021
- Last date for comments
- 27 January 2021
- Target decision date
- 17 February 2021
- Permission expires
- 29 January 2023
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- JD Trees
- Agent address
- 48 Hall Farm Cottages Thorpe Parva, Scole Scole, Diss scole, diss IP21 4HJ United Kingdom
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 42 days
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- Conservation area: Mellis
- 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.
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Planning history at this site
3 other applications at this property, newest first.
- 20212 Feb
Householder Planning Application - Erection of a ground floor rear extension.
ApprovedHouseholderDC/21/00620 - 200531 Aug
Single storey detached garage.
ApprovedFull Planning Application1812/05 - 200315 Aug
FRONT SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION. REAR SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION AND SINGLE STOREY DETACHED GARAGE IN REAR GARDEN.
ApprovedFull Planning Application1103/03/
Source: Babergh Mid Suffolk
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