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Almacks Hall Street Long Melford Sudbury Suffolk

DC/25/00063Tree Preservation Order - Works RelatedApproved

Approved on 6 February 2025

Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Application for works protected by Tree Preservation Order WS87/T13 - Pollard 1No Lime Tree by approximately 50% as the tree is dying back from the top, it has lost major dead limbs in the past, by reducing this it would encourage new growth.

Received
7 January 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
1
Ward
Long Melford
Agent
Suffolk Tree Services Ltd
  1. Received7 Jan
  2. Validated8 Jan
  3. Consult.29 Jan
  4. Target19 Feb
  5. Decided6 Feb

Decided in 29 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a tree application at Almacks Hall Street Long Melford Sudbury Suffolk. 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 Long Melford conservation area, with 20 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 85 applications across Long Melford.

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

Application type
Tree Preservation Order - Works Related
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
8 January 2025
Consultation expiry
29 January 2025
Consultation start
8 January 2025
Consultation end
29 January 2025
Last date for comments
29 January 2025
Target decision date
19 February 2025
Permission expires
6 February 2027

Applicant and agent

Agent
Suffolk Tree Services Ltd
Agent address
The Woodyard Brent Eleigh Road Lavenham CO10 9PE

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13678729
Documents
4
Constraints
6

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • Conservation area: Long Melford
  • Listed building: Grade II: AlmacksOn or next to this site
  • 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, 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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