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Chequers 7 Church Street Boxford Sudbury Suffolk CO10 5DU

DC/25/00728Notification: Works to Trees in Con AreaApproved
Prior approval

Approved on 20 March 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 - 1 Willow to be coppiced back to last prune 6 other willows to be coppiced to allow light into rear gardens on Swan Street and to allow water in natural pond to remain at a level through summer to support insect eggs/larvae.

Received
17 February 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
2
Ward
Box Vale
  1. Received17 Feb
  2. Validated18 Feb
  3. Consult.11 Mar
  4. Target1 Apr
  5. Decided20 Mar

Decided in 30 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a tree application at Chequers 7 Church Street Boxford Sudbury Suffolk CO10 5DU. 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 Boxford conservation area, with 19 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 58 applications across Box Vale. We hold 3,165 applications in total for the CO10 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
CO10 5DU
Application type
Notification: Works to Trees in Con Area
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Boxford

Planning application dates

Date validated
18 February 2025
Consultation expiry
11 March 2025
Consultation start
18 February 2025
Consultation end
11 March 2025
Last date for comments
11 March 2025
Target decision date
1 April 2025
Permission expires
20 March 2027

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13781106
Documents
3
Constraints
9

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: BoxfordPart of the site
  • Listed building: Grade II: The Old ChequersOn this site · +4 more

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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