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Pump Station Dereham Road, Litcham, Kings Lynn, Norfolk, PE32 2NU

TRE/2019/0244/TCATCA Application for trees in a conservation areaApproved

Approved on 13 November 2019

Council decision: No Objection

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

Proposal

Following a recent customer complaint and a site visit completed by Lucy Telford. To provide NPTC trained operatives working at height to complete a crown reduction on mature sycamore tree within site boundary. To Sever ivy at the base of the tree and crown reduce. Remove 4m from top and 4m from diameter leaving a final height 30ft and width 8m. All materials to be lowered using rope and harness into a safe zone drop area. All materials to be removed from site using licensed waste carrier.

Received
18 October 2019
Ward
Launditch
  1. Received18 Oct
  2. Validated18 Oct
  3. Consult.
  4. Target29 Nov
  5. Decided13 Nov

Decided in 26 days (council typically 42)

About this application

This is a tree application at Pump Station Dereham Road, Litcham, Kings Lynn, Norfolk, PE32 2NU. Breckland has handled 903 applications of this type. This one was decided in 26 days, 2 weeks quicker than Breckland's typical decision time. The site is in the Litcham conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 38 applications across Launditch. We hold 1,150 applications in total for the PE32 postcode area.

99% of trees applications at Breckland District Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 6 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
PE32 2NU
Application type
TCA Application for trees in a conservation area
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Litcham Parish Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
18 October 2019
Target decision date
29 November 2019

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Mr Joe Ground Control Ltd Kingfisher House Radford Way Billericay CM12 0EQ

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: Litcham
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions. Ask the council if these matter.

Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.

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: Breckland

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