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Meadowbrook Fairfield Drive Saxmundham Suffolk IP17 1AX

DC/15/4811/TCAWorks to Trees in Conservation AreaApproved

Approved on 4 January 2016

Council decision: Application PermittedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

SIlver Birch in rear garden - 3m. crown reduction and crown clean to clear overhead cables.

Received
30 November 2015
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Saxmundham
  1. Received30 Nov
  2. Validated30 Nov
  3. Consult.22 Dec
  4. Target10 Jan
  5. Decided4 Jan

Decided in 35 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at Meadowbrook Fairfield Drive Saxmundham Suffolk IP17 1AX. East Suffolk has handled 820 applications of this type. This one was decided in 35 days, 3 weeks quicker than East Suffolk's typical decision time. The site is in the Saxmundham conservation area, with 3 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 28 applications across Saxmundham. We hold 1,357 applications in total for the IP17 postcode area.

99% of trees applications at East Suffolk Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
IP17 1AX
Application type
Works to Trees in Conservation Area
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Saxmundham

Planning application dates

Date validated
30 November 2015
Consultation expiry
22 December 2015
Consultation start
2 December 2015
Consultation end
22 December 2015
Last date for comments
22 December 2015
Target decision date
10 January 2016
Decision issued
7 January 2016
Permission expires
7 January 2021

Applicant and agent

Agent address
3 Penny Royal Gardens Ipswich Suffolk IP2 0XQ

Planning decision

Statutory period
41 days

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
2
Constraints
7

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Saxmundham
  • 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

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© 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.

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Source: East Suffolk

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