Mulberry Tree Cottage Mill Street Polstead Colchester Suffolk CO6 5AD
Approved on 6 September 2024
Council decision: Raise No ObjectionDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
Application for works to a tree in a Conservation Area - Fell 1No Fraxinus Excelsior, due to Ash Dieback (Hymenoscyphus Fraxineus).
- Received
- 9 August 2024
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Babergh District Council
- Ward
- Brett Vale
- ReceivedReceived9 Aug
- ValidatedValidated9 Aug
- Consult.Consultation30 Aug
- TargetTarget Date20 Sep
- DecidedDecided6 Sep
Decided in 28 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is a tree application at Mulberry Tree Cottage Mill Street Polstead Colchester Suffolk CO6 5AD. Babergh Mid Suffolk has handled 1,921 applications of this type. This one was decided in 28 days, 3 weeks quicker than Babergh Mid Suffolk's typical decision time. The site is in the Polstead conservation area, with 2 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 70 applications across Brett Vale. 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 5AD
- Application type
- Notification: Works to Trees in Con Area
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Polstead
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 9 August 2024
- Consultation expiry
- 30 August 2024
- Consultation start
- 9 August 2024
- Consultation end
- 30 August 2024
- Last date for comments
- 30 August 2024
- Target decision date
- 20 September 2024
- Permission expires
- 6 September 2026
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Guy Marcal Gardens
- Agent address
- The Coach House High Street Much Hadham Hertfordshire SG10 6BY 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: Polstead
- 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.
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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