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Woodbine Cottage Rectory Lane Burnham Thorpe Norfolk PE31 8GE

23/00157/TREECAWorks to/Fell Tree in Conservation AreaApproved

Approved on 15 September 2023

Council decision: Tree Application - No objectionDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

T1 - Hawthorn - Coppice T6 - Group of three hollies - Lightly trim overall by approximately 0.5m. T7 - Lime - Reduce lateral branches growing to the north by approximately 2m up to a height of approximately 4m. Crown lift branches over the fence/road to the south to achieve a ground clearance of approximately 2m. G8 - Group of 2 hollies and one hawthorn on road front. Face back lateral growth to the south by approximately 1m up to height of 2m to improve visibility splay.

Received
3 August 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Burnham Market And Docking
  1. Received3 Aug
  2. Validated3 Aug
  3. Consult.31 Aug
  4. Target14 Sep
  5. Decided15 Sep

Decided in 43 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a tree application at Woodbine Cottage Rectory Lane Burnham Thorpe Norfolk PE31 8GE. Kings Lynn has handled 653 applications of this type. This one was decided in 43 days, 6 days quicker than Kings Lynn's typical decision time. The site is in the Burnham Thorpe conservation area. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 106 applications across Burnham Market And Docking. We hold 1,188 applications in total for the PE31 postcode area.

98% of trees applications at King's Lynn and West Norfolk Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 7 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
PE31 8GE
Application type
Works to/Fell Tree in Conservation Area
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Burnham Thorpe

Planning application dates

Date validated
3 August 2023
Consultation start
10 August 2023
Last date for comments
31 August 2023
Target decision date
14 September 2023

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Stuart Bowen The Old Sawmill Ampton Lane Ingham Bury St. Edmunds IP31 1NS

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-12364030
Comments
0
Documents
7

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • Conservation area: BURNHAM THORPE Conservation Area
  • National Landscape (AONB): Norfolk Coast
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (22)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders, 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, 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: Kings Lynn

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