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Charter Cottage St James Street Dunwich Saxmundham Suffolk IP17 3DU

DC/25/4048/TCAWorks to Trees in Conservation AreaApproved

Approved on 3 December 2025

Council decision: No ObjectionsDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

1no. Multi stemmed Sycamore (marked on plan) - Remove half of stems and reduce height by 3 metres

Received
21 October 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Wrentham, Wangford And Westleton
  1. Received21 Oct
  2. Validated28 Oct
  3. Consult.19 Nov
  4. Target9 Dec
  5. Decided3 Dec

Decided in 36 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at Charter Cottage St James Street Dunwich Saxmundham Suffolk IP17 3DU. East Suffolk has handled 820 applications of this type. This one was decided in 43 days, 13 days quicker than East Suffolk's typical decision time. The site is in the Dunwich conservation area, with 2 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 50 applications across Wrentham, Wangford And Westleton. 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 3DU
Application type
Works to Trees in Conservation Area
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Dunwich

Planning application dates

Date validated
28 October 2025
Last date for comments
19 November 2025
Target decision date
9 December 2025
Permission expires
3 December 2027

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: Dunwich
  • 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 (19)

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, 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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© 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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