3 Croft Cottages Sudbury Road Bures St Mary Bures Suffolk CO8 5JN
Approved on 6 March 2026
Council decision: Raise No ObjectionDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
Application for works to trees in a Conservation Area - Fell a Silver Birch tree that has a severe lean towards property, it is likely to be dying and only being supported by Ivy. It is and the bottom of 3, Croft Cottages, close to the foot path. We believe it is a risk to property.
- Received
- 4 February 2026
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Public comments
- 2
- Council
- Babergh District Council
- Ward
- Bures St Mary & Nayland
- ReceivedReceived4 Feb
- ValidatedValidated5 Feb
- Consult.Consultation26 Feb
- TargetTarget Date19 Mar
- DecidedDecided6 Mar
Decided in 29 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is a tree application at 3 Croft Cottages Sudbury Road Bures St Mary Bures Suffolk CO8 5JN. 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 Bures St Mary conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded 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 5JN
- Application type
- Notification: Works to Trees in Con Area
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Bures St Mary
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 5 February 2026
- Consultation expiry
- 26 February 2026
- Consultation start
- 5 February 2026
- Consultation end
- 26 February 2026
- Last date for comments
- 26 February 2026
- Target decision date
- 19 March 2026
- Permission expires
- 6 March 2028
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 42 days
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-14677526
- Documents
- 3
- Constraints
- 6
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- 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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