Riversdale Lower Street Stratford St Mary Colchester Suffolk CO7 6JS
Approved on 19 March 2026
Council decision: Raise No ObjectionDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
Application for works to trees in a Conservation Area - T001 Copper beech 3m reduction of canopy reduce wind loading on defect (back to previous points. Retain maximum volume of leaf mass within inner canopy.
- Received
- 16 February 2026
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Babergh District Council
- Ward
- Brett Vale
- Agent
- RH Tree Consultants Ltd
- ReceivedReceived16 Feb
- ValidatedValidated23 Feb
- Consult.Consultation16 Mar
- TargetTarget Date6 Apr
- DecidedDecided19 Mar
Decided in 24 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is a tree application at Riversdale Lower Street Stratford St Mary Colchester Suffolk CO7 6JS. 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 Stratford St Mary conservation area, with 7 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 70 applications across Brett Vale. We hold 2,580 applications in total for the CO7 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
- CO7 6JS
- Application type
- Notification: Works to Trees in Con Area
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Stratford St Mary
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 23 February 2026
- Consultation expiry
- 16 March 2026
- Consultation start
- 23 February 2026
- Consultation end
- 16 March 2026
- Last date for comments
- 16 March 2026
- Target decision date
- 6 April 2026
- Permission expires
- 19 March 2028
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- RH Tree Consultants Ltd
- Agent address
- Field Barn House Rymer Lane Barnham IP24 2PR
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 42 days
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)
- National Landscape (AONB): Dedham Vale
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, conservation 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, 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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