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Valley Cottage Pin Mill Road Chelmondiston Ipswich Suffolk IP9 1JJ

DC/26/03383Notification: Works to Trees in Con AreaApproved
Prior approval

Approved on 7 September 2026

Council decision: Raise No Objection

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Application for work to trees in a Conservation Area - False Acacia tree to be reduced by 50% - the previous work agreed in 2023 - DC/23/04623 of 30% just resulted in growth spurt - causing a lack of light at the front of the house

Received
6 August 2026
Ward
Orwell
  1. Received6 Aug
  2. Validated7 Aug
  3. Consult.28 Aug
  4. Target18 Sep
  5. Decided7 Sep

Decided in 31 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a tree application at Valley Cottage Pin Mill Road Chelmondiston Ipswich Suffolk IP9 1JJ. Babergh Mid Suffolk has handled 1,921 applications of this type. This one was decided in 32 days, 2 weeks quicker than Babergh Mid Suffolk's typical decision time. The site is in the Pin Mill conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 33 applications across Orwell. We hold 834 applications in total for the IP9 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
IP9 1JJ
Application type
Notification: Works to Trees in Con Area
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Chelmondiston

Planning application dates

Date validated
7 August 2026
Consultation start
7 August 2026
Last date for comments
28 August 2026
Target decision date
18 September 2026

Planning decision

Case officer
David Pizzey
Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-15141105
Comments
0
Documents
3
Constraints
11

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • Conservation area: Pin Mill
  • National Landscape (AONB): Suffolk Coast & Heaths
  • 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 (20)

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, 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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