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May Place South Green Southwold Suffolk IP18 6ER

DC/24/1959/TCAWorks to Trees in Conservation AreaApproved

Approved on 10 July 2024

Council decision: No ObjectionsDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

1no. Beech (T1 on plan) - Re-pollard to 13m 1no. Yew (T2 on plan) - Reduce height to 8m and reduce overextended west growth by 2.5m.

Received
29 May 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Southwold
Agent
Nathan Hunt tree services
  1. Received29 May
  2. Validated29 May
  3. Consult.24 Jun
  4. Target10 Jul
  5. Decided10 Jul

Decided in 42 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at May Place South Green Southwold Suffolk IP18 6ER. East Suffolk has handled 820 applications of this type. This one was decided in 42 days, 2 weeks quicker than East Suffolk's typical decision time. The site is in the Southwold conservation area, with 20 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 71 applications across Southwold. We hold 548 applications in total for the IP18 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
IP18 6ER
Application type
Works to Trees in Conservation Area
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Southwold

Planning application dates

Date validated
29 May 2024
Last date for comments
24 June 2024
Target decision date
10 July 2024
Permission expires
10 July 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent
Nathan Hunt tree services
Agent address
1 Priory Farm Mendham Suffolk IP20 0JH

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
3

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Southwold
  • Listed building: Grade II: May Place May Place Cottage (Number 7a)On or next to this site · +2 more
  • National Landscape (AONB): Suffolk Coast & Heaths
  • Heritage coast: Suffolk
  • 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 (18)

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, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves 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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© 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: East Suffolk

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