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Saffron House High Street Wethersfield Essex CM7 4BZ

21/03755/TPOCONWorks to Trees in Conservation AreaApproved

Approved on 28 February 2022

Council decision: Application GRANTED

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 - 2x Lawson (about 10-15m) cypress on rear boundary of garden to be felled to ground level (one of which is leaning dangerously across boundary and towards electricity pylon). To be replaced with native hedgerow.

Received
28 December 2021
Ward
THREE FIELDS
  1. Received28 Dec
  2. Validated11 Jan
  3. Consult.
  4. Target22 Feb
  5. Decided28 Feb

Decided in 48 days

About this application

This is a tree application at Saffron House High Street Wethersfield Essex CM7 4BZ. Braintree has handled 710 applications of this type. This one was decided in 62 days. The site is in the Wethersfield conservation area, with 9 listed buildings nearby. There have been 2 other applications at this address. We hold 937 applications in total for the CM7 postcode area.

Application details

Postcode
CM7 4BZ
Application type
Works to Trees in Conservation Area
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Wethersfield Parish Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
11 January 2022
Target decision date
22 February 2022

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

Documents
3

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: Wethersfield
  • 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: Braintree

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