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Unit 1 Church Place Retail Park Church Street Saxmundham Suffolk IP17 1EP

DC/24/4069/TCAWorks to Trees in Conservation AreaApproved

Approved on 20 December 2024

Council decision: No ObjectionsDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Tree works quoted from an existing survey: T1 - Callery Pear - Crown lift up to 2m T2 - Callery Pear - Crown lift up to 2m T3 - Common Lime - Crown lift up to 2m T4 - Common Lime - Crown lift up to 2m T5 - Common Lime - Crown lift up to 2m T6 - Common Lime - Fell to ground level T7 - Common Lime - Crown lift up to 2m T8 - Common Lime - Crown lift up to 2m T9 - Common Lime - Crown lift up to 2m T10 - Common Lime - Crown lift up to 2m T11 - Common Lime - Crown lift up to 2m T12 - Common Lime - Crown lift up to 2m T13 - Fastigiate Hornbeam - Crown lift up up 2m T14 - Fastigiate Hornbeam - Crown lift up up 2m

Received
12 November 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
1
Ward
Saxmundham
  1. Received12 Nov
  2. Validated12 Nov
  3. Consult.4 Dec
  4. Target24 Dec
  5. Decided20 Dec

Decided in 38 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at Unit 1 Church Place Retail Park Church Street Saxmundham Suffolk IP17 1EP. East Suffolk has handled 820 applications of this type. This one was decided in 38 days, 3 weeks quicker than East Suffolk's typical decision time. The site is in the Saxmundham conservation area. There have been 2 other applications 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 1EP
Application type
Works to Trees in Conservation Area
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Saxmundham

Planning application dates

Date validated
12 November 2024
Last date for comments
4 December 2024
Target decision date
24 December 2024
Permission expires
20 December 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent
AJB Tree Care
Agent address
45 High Street Tetsworth Thame OX9 7AD

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

Documents
8

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 2: Medium probability (rivers and sea)Part of the site
  • Conservation area: Saxmundham

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: East Suffolk

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