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Portland Lodge Chapel Road Ridgewell Essex CO9 4RZ

20/00272/TPOCONWorks to Trees in Conservation AreaApproved

Approved on 28 October 2020

Council decision: Part Granted Part Refused

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

Proposal

Notice of intent to carry out works to trees in a Conservation Area Leylandii (1). Excessive shading, lifting tarmac in driveway, destroying border hedgerow, impinging on electricity lines. Tree to be felled, Yew (2). Poisonous berries, bark and leaves pose danger to young children and animals at property. Roots present risk to lime plaster property wall 2m away, water pipes 0.5m away and sewage pipes 1.5m away. Excessive shading, damages hedgerow and makes garden insecure. Tree to be felled.

Received
21 August 2020
Ward
STOUR VALLEY NORTH
  1. Received21 Aug
  2. Validated24 Aug
  3. Consult.
  4. Target5 Oct
  5. Decided28 Oct

Decided in 65 days

About this application

This is a tree application at Portland Lodge Chapel Road Ridgewell Essex CO9 4RZ. Braintree has handled 710 applications of this type. This one was decided in 68 days. The site is in the Ridgewell conservation area, with 9 listed buildings nearby. There have been 3 other applications at this address. We hold 1,253 applications in total for the CO9 postcode area.

Application details

Postcode
CO9 4RZ
Application type
Works to Trees in Conservation Area
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Ridgewell Parish Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
24 August 2020
Target decision date
5 October 2020

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

Documents
2

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

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

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: Braintree

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