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Sewage Pumping Station St James Street Dunwich Suffolk

DC/25/4445/TCAWorks to Trees in Conservation AreaApproved

Approved on 29 December 2025

Council decision: No ObjectionsDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

1no. Group of mixed species trees and hedges (western side of the compound) -Crown lift all trees over the access track to 4 metres, and reduce back the hedge line by 1 metre to a height of 3 metres

Received
17 November 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Wrentham, Wangford And Westleton
Agent
Ground Control Ltd - 663056
  1. Received17 Nov
  2. Validated17 Nov
  3. Consult.10 Dec
  4. Target29 Dec
  5. Decided29 Dec

Decided in 42 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at Sewage Pumping Station St James Street Dunwich Suffolk. 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 Dunwich conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 50 applications across Wrentham, Wangford And Westleton.

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

Application type
Works to Trees in Conservation Area
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Dunwich

Planning application dates

Date validated
17 November 2025
Last date for comments
10 December 2025
Target decision date
29 December 2025
Permission expires
29 December 2027

Applicant and agent

Agent
Ground Control Ltd - 663056
Agent address
Kingfisher House Radford Way Billericay CM12 0EQ

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
3

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)
  • Conservation area: Dunwich
  • National Landscape (AONB): Suffolk Coast & Heaths
  • National nature reserve: Suffolk Coast
  • Heritage coast: Suffolk

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, 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, 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

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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