Martins Church Lane Finningham Stowmarket Suffolk IP14 4JB
Approved on 31 October 2025
Council decision: Raise No ObjectionDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Notification of Works to Trees in a Conservation Area - Reduce, shape and balance one oak by up to a third.
- Received
- 6 October 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Babergh District Council
- Ward
- Bacton
- ReceivedReceived6 Oct
- ValidatedValidated6 Oct
- Consult.Consultation28 Oct
- TargetTarget Date17 Nov
- DecidedDecided31 Oct
Decided in 25 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is a tree application at Martins Church Lane Finningham Stowmarket Suffolk IP14 4JB. Babergh Mid Suffolk has handled 1,921 applications of this type. This one was decided in 25 days, 3 weeks quicker than Babergh Mid Suffolk's typical decision time. The site is in the Finningham conservation area, with 8 listed buildings nearby. There have been 3 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 32 applications across Bacton. We hold 1,278 applications in total for the IP14 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
- IP14 4JB
- Application type
- Notification: Works to Trees in Con Area
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Finningham
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 6 October 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 28 October 2025
- Consultation start
- 7 October 2025
- Consultation end
- 28 October 2025
- Neighbour consultation start
- 7 October 2025
- Neighbour consultation end
- 28 October 2025
- Last date for comments
- 28 October 2025
- Target decision date
- 17 November 2025
- Permission expires
- 31 October 2027
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Treecraft
- Agent address
- Treecraft Wall Cottage The Street Rickinghall Diss IP221EJ
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 42 days
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)Part of the site
- Conservation area: Finningham
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.
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Planning history at this site
9 other applications at this property, newest first.
- 202521 Jun
Notification of works to trees in a Conservation Area - T1 Oak tree, reduce the canopy of the tree to…
ApprovedNotification: Works to Trees in Con AreaDC/25/02814 - 202423 Feb
Notification from a Statutory Undertaker -Installation of a 12m pole for the mounting of LoRaWAN gateway…
PendingDevelopment by statutory undertakerDC/24/00909 - 20224 Oct
Notification of Works to Trees in a Conservation Area - Thin crown and target prune 1No. Oak (T1)
ApprovedNotification: Works to Trees in Con AreaDC/22/04916 - 201926 Jun
Notification of Works to Trees in a Conservation Area - T1 (Maple tree) - Reduce crown by approximately 40%
ApprovedNotification: Works to Trees in Con AreaDC/19/03031 - 201628 Sep
Reduce unbalanced Oak on property side by up to 2m (T1), Oversized Oak tree to reduce crown volume by up to…
ApprovedNotification: Works to Trees in Con Area4052/16 - 20153 Aug
Widen first floor window to side (west) elevation.
ApprovedFull Planning Application2732/15 - 201322 Apr
Prune two Oak Trees and Eucaliptyus Tree. Remove ash Tree.
ApprovedNotification: Works to Trees in Con Area1258/13 - 20108 Jul
Reduce in height (to hedge row height) a row of 9 Ash and 1 Willow trees in hedge row running parallel to the…
ApprovedNotification: Works to Trees in Con Area2184/10 - 200721 May
Remove two willow trees
ApprovedNotification: Works to Trees in Con Area1407/07
Source: Babergh Mid Suffolk
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