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Fox Hall The Croft Bures St Mary Bures Suffolk CO8 5JB

DC/26/00312Notification: Works to Trees in Con AreaApproved
Prior approval

Approved on 27 February 2026

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 - (T1) Silver Birch in front garden 12m tall within 6m of house - reduce to 6m. (T2) Ash in rear garden 8m high within 5m of house - reduce to 5m. (T3, T4, T5) 4 no. Silver Birch in rear garden overhanging public path on side of garden- reduce overhang to ensure no injury to persons or vehicles. On North West boundary. (T6) Maple - reduce overhang over drive/path on South East boundary.

Received
27 January 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
2
Ward
Bures St Mary & Nayland
  1. Received27 Jan
  2. Validated29 Jan
  3. Consult.19 Feb
  4. Target12 Mar
  5. Decided27 Feb

Decided in 29 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a tree application at Fox Hall The Croft Bures St Mary Bures Suffolk CO8 5JB. 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 Bures St Mary conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 68 applications across Bures St Mary & Nayland. We hold 165 applications in total for the CO8 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
CO8 5JB
Application type
Notification: Works to Trees in Con Area
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Bures St Mary

Planning application dates

Date validated
29 January 2026
Consultation expiry
19 February 2026
Consultation start
29 January 2026
Consultation end
19 February 2026
Last date for comments
19 February 2026
Target decision date
12 March 2026
Permission expires
27 February 2028

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14651283
Documents
5
Constraints
6

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Bures St Mary
  • 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 (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

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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