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Cherry Tree House Finningham Road Walsham Le Willows Bury St Edmunds Suffolk IP31 3BQ

DC/25/00383Notification: Works to Trees in Con AreaApproved
Prior approval

Approved on 28 February 2025

Council decision: Raise No ObjectionDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Notification of Works to Trees in a Conservation Area - Fell x1 Willow, Fell x2 Leylandii, Fell x1 Sycamore, Fell x1 Cypress, Reduce to 4m x2 Leylandii, Reduce crown by 4m x1 Cherry, Reduce crown by 7m x1 Beech, Reduce to below phone lines x3 Cherry.

Received
28 January 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
1
Ward
Walsham-le-Willows
  1. Received28 Jan
  2. Validated28 Jan
  3. Consult.20 Feb
  4. Target11 Mar
  5. Decided28 Feb

Decided in 31 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a tree application at Cherry Tree House Finningham Road Walsham Le Willows Bury St Edmunds Suffolk IP31 3BQ. Babergh Mid Suffolk has handled 1,921 applications of this type. This one was decided in 31 days, 3 weeks quicker than Babergh Mid Suffolk's typical decision time. The site is in the Walsham le Willows conservation area, with 2 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 79 applications across Walsham-le-Willows. We hold 1,716 applications in total for the IP31 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
IP31 3BQ
Application type
Notification: Works to Trees in Con Area
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Walsham Le Willows

Planning application dates

Date validated
28 January 2025
Consultation expiry
20 February 2025
Consultation start
30 January 2025
Consultation end
20 February 2025
Last date for comments
20 February 2025
Target decision date
11 March 2025
Permission expires
28 February 2027

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-12128462
Documents
4
Constraints
3

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)Part of the site
  • Conservation area: Walsham le WillowsPart of the site

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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© 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.

Planning history at this site

5 other applications at this property, newest first.

  1. 2020
    11 Feb

    Notification of Works to Trees in a Conservation Area - Cedar (T1) - Fell, Leylandi (T2) - Fell and Leylandi…

    ApprovedNotification: Works to Trees in Con AreaDC/20/00595
  2. 2012
    14 Feb

    Cherry Tree at the front of the property - prune so it is not growing into phone lines anymore. Conifer at…

    ApprovedNotification: Works to Trees in Con Area0558/12
  3. 2007
    22 Jan

    Outline Planning Permission for erection of new dwelling with garage block

    RefusedOutline Planning Application1369/06
  4. 2007
    3 Jan

    Single storey extensions to both the east & west elevation & demolition of back addition & conservatory to be…

    ApprovedFull Planning Application0007/07
  5. 2006
    21 Apr

    Remove two Norway spruce and one scots pine.

    ApprovedNotification: Works to Trees in Con Area0904/06

Source: Babergh Mid Suffolk

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