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Little Oaks South View Road Danbury Chelmsford Essex CM3 4DX

25/05271/TPOTreesApproved

Approved on 8 December 2025

Proposal

T1 oak - up to 2.5 m crown reduction to previous pruning points. T2 oak - 1.5 - 2 m crown reduction suitable pruning points. T3 oak - 2 - 2.5 m crown reduction to suitable pruning points. Remove deadwood >100mm diameter. Sever Ivy on main stem. Reason: As part of regular maintenance of the trees, ensuring they remain a suitable size for their location, mitigating the risk of harsher pruning being required in the future. Deadwood removal for the safety of the homeowner and users of the public footpath below the trees.

Received
27 October 2025
  1. Received27 Oct
  2. Validated
  3. Consult.27 Nov
  4. Target22 Dec
  5. Decided8 Dec

Decided in 42 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a tree application at Little Oaks South View Road Danbury Chelmsford Essex CM3 4DX. Chelmsford has handled 913 applications of this type. This one was decided in 42 days, 7 days quicker than Chelmsford's typical decision time. The site is in the Danbury conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 2,982 applications in total for the CM3 postcode area.

97% of trees applications at Chelmsford City Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 7 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
CM3 4DX
Application type
Trees
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Validated
27 October 2025
Consultation expiry
27 November 2025
Consultation end
27 November 2025
Target decision date
22 December 2025

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14442492
Documents
4

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: Danbury Conservation Area
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.

Also checked, none recorded (22)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, Article 4 directions, 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: Chelmsford

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