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Highfield The Street Barnby Beccles Suffolk NR34 7QB

DC/25/2989/TPOWorks to Trees under TPOApproved

Approved on 23 September 2025

Council decision: Application PermittedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

1no. Group Elms (G1 on submitted plan) - Fell 8 heavily leaning young Elm, reduce remaining by up to 4m 1no. Cedar (T3 on submitted plan) - Remove lowest east limb, remove 2 lowest north limbs, reduce lowest west limb by 2m 1no. Holm Oak (T2 on submitted plan) - Reduce crown by 4-6m 1no. Holly (T4 on submitted plan) - Fell 1no. Group Elm (G2 on submitted plan) - Thin smaller Elms by 30%, Reduce remaining by 4m, remove 1 boundary Elm 1no. Lime (T5 on submitted plan) - Remove epicormic growth and deadwood 2no. Group Elm (G3 & G3.1 on submitted plan) - Remove group of small young Elm Suckers 1no. Cypress (T6 on submitted plan) - Fell 1no. Eucalyptus (T7 on submitted plan) -Pollard at 2m from ground level 1no. Sycamore (T8 on submitted plan) - Raise crown to 3m from ground level, reduce crown by 3m 1no. Beech (T9 on submitted plan) - Reduce the 3 stems by 6m 1no. Lime (T10 on submitted plan) - Reduce height by 6-8m, reduce lateral spread by 2-3m 1no. Horse chestnut (T11 on submitted plan) - Fell 1no. Group Sycamore & Holly (G4 on submitted plan) - Re-hedge to 5-6m from ground level 1no. Group Holly (G5 on submitted plan) - Reduce height by 2m 1no. Lime (T12 on submitted plan) - Pollard at 10m from ground level 1no. Holly (T13 on submitted plan) - Move to another part of the garden away from the house

Received
31 July 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
1
Ward
Beccles And Worlingham
  1. Received31 Jul
  2. Validated31 Jul
  3. Consult.21 Aug
  4. Target25 Sep
  5. Decided23 Sep

Decided in 54 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at Highfield The Street Barnby Beccles Suffolk NR34 7QB. East Suffolk has handled 820 applications of this type. This one was decided in 54 days. There have been 7 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 57 applications across Beccles And Worlingham. We hold 1,406 applications in total for the NR34 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
NR34 7QB
Application type
Works to Trees under TPO
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Barnby

Planning application dates

Date validated
31 July 2025
Last date for comments
21 August 2025
Target decision date
25 September 2025
Permission expires
23 September 2030

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
4

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • 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 (22)

flood storage areas, conservation 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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