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The Cottage Little St Marys Long Melford Sudbury Suffolk CO10 9HX

DC/26/01800Notification: Works to Trees in Con AreaAwaiting decision
Prior approval
Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Application for works to trees in a Conservation Area - H1 Conifer remove to ground level. T2 Conifer remove to ground level. T3 Hazel remove the lowest limb prune any overhang into the neighbouring garden back to the boundary, leaving the middle stem natural. T4 Laurel reduce to 3m high cut back any overhanging towards the neighbouring property.

Received
28 April 2026
Decision due
9 June 2026
Public comments
1
Ward
Long Melford
Agent
Blake Tree Care Limited
  1. Received28 Apr
  2. Validated28 Apr
  3. Consult.19 May
  4. Target9 Jun
  5. Decided

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Comments close on 19 May.

Comment on the council's siteDocuments (3)

About this application

This is a tree application at The Cottage Little St Marys Long Melford Sudbury Suffolk CO10 9HX. Babergh Mid Suffolk has handled 1,921 applications of this type. It has been with the council since 28 April 2026 and is still awaiting a decision. The site is in the Long Melford conservation area, with 15 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 85 applications across Long Melford. 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 9HX
Application type
Notification: Works to Trees in Con Area
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Long Melford

Planning application dates

Date validated
28 April 2026
Consultation expiry
19 May 2026
Consultation start
28 April 2026
Consultation end
19 May 2026
Last date for comments
19 May 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent
Blake Tree Care Limited
Agent address
Orchard Lodge Dowling Road Mount Bures Bures CO8 5AY

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14890087
Documents
3
Constraints
4

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

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

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© 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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