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Suffolk College Rope Walk Ipswich Suffolk

25/00759/TALFWorks to Trees covered by TPOApproved

Approved on 9 December 2025

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Works to tree protected by TPO 2 of 2004: reduce whole canopy of American Ash by 30%, remove dead wood, crown raise to 2.44m.

Received
29 October 2025
Ward
ALEXANDRA
  1. Received29 Oct
  2. Validated29 Oct
  3. Consult.25 Nov
  4. Target24 Dec
  5. Decided9 Dec

Decided in 41 days (council typically 42)

About this application

This is a tree application at Suffolk College Rope Walk Ipswich Suffolk. Ipswich has handled 159 applications of this type. This one was decided in 41 days. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 100 applications across ALEXANDRA.

100% of trees applications at Ipswich Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 6 weeks (median).

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Application details

Application type
Works to Trees covered by TPO
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Central Area

Planning application dates

Date validated
29 October 2025
Consultation expiry
25 November 2025
Consultation start
30 October 2025
Neighbour consultation start
30 October 2025
Neighbour consultation end
25 November 2025
Target decision date
24 December 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Vertas Group Ltd 2 Friars Bridge Road Ipswich IP1 1RR

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Last advertised
4 November 2025
Advertisement expiry
25 November 2025
Site notice start
4 November 2025
Site notice end
25 November 2025

Additional information

Documents
2

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Article 4 direction: Article 4 Direction for Small HMOsNext to the site
  • Brownfield land register: Peter's Ice Cream etc Grimwade StRegister site at or near this address
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Not published by this council, so not checked: tree preservation orders. Ask the council if these matter.

Also checked, none recorded (21)

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 and heritage coasts.

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.

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